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The Monday 2007-09-17 at 17:12 +0200, M9. wrote:
> > A cracker can make his PC look like one of yours and connect, instantly.
>
> Well, as a matter of fact, in my case, this is not as simple as you
> suggest..
> I live in the middle of nowhere..
...
Sounds a beautiful place :-)
> Thnx for your concern ;-)
Welcome :-)
You know that there are handheld gadgets that you carry in your pocket
when you have a walk and beep or buzz when they detect a wifi. I have been
told of people doing it in their cars, putting a special aerial with a
magnet on the car roof. They can use a portable computer running a certain
windows program that detects the networks it finds, and writes all that in
a report. Plus, if connected to a GPS and a map software, it plots the
findings in the map, with colors showing how "kind" are the neighbors.
The person that told me this said that they were thinking on doing this
for their final project on university, and had a round of the industrial
park here with that setup. The findings were very /interesting/, but
refrained from making them public.
But I had seen a similar report published in an article by the IEEE, it
wasn't news to me.
Not your case, but people should be way more cautious with their wifis. On
another message I wrote a sample of what damage can get done to such
trusting users.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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