Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-08 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
Poor Targus... go to an internet cafe and check there your emails 2008/1/8, Nick Guenther [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 1/7/08, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:19:26PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: loosen up a bit,

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-08 Thread Pete Vickers
Well this sounds very much to me like 'We know (for example) Windows security is weak by design, but it's not MS's fault for a crap system, it's the bad guys fault for actually realising it'. I disagree, MS have no excuse for not providing sufficient/suitable security in their products,

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-08 Thread scott
] Cc: Dave Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED], Targus Neoprene [EMAIL PROTECTED], misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: avoiding a mac address filter Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:57:33 +0100 To put it another way, is it my fault for teaching you to drive a car, if you

avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Targus Neoprene
Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an IP address via dhclient I have a naive question: Is there any way to avoid that? I mean:

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Josh Grosse
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an IP address via dhclient

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread knitti
On 1/7/08, Targus Neoprene [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to surpass the mac filter and get an ip? most likely yes and yes. man ifconfig --knitti

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Jan 7, 2008 9:00 AM, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but they seem to be protected

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies 2008/1/7, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Pau Amaro-Seoane
I mean that I'd also be interested to see any more elaborated answer than a sermon on ethics... and after all, at my place of work they also use the same system (!), so that it'd be interesting to know how they can crack it... and avoid it 2008/1/7, Pau Amaro-Seoane [EMAIL PROTECTED]: loosen up

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Dave Anderson
On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies Theft of service is theft, regardless of how much or little service you're stealing. If someone's gone to the trouble of filtering on MAC

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Alexander Hall
xlTargus Neoprene wrote: Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but they seem to be protected with a mac filter, because I cannot get an IP address via dhclient I have a naive question: Is there any

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Dag Richards
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 7, 2008 9:00 AM, Josh Grosse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008 13:39:01 +0100, Targus Neoprene wrote Hi, in my flat I can see a lot of open connection points. They do not require a password and, in principle, I can log in every time... but they seem

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Andreas Maus
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:19:26PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies Theft of service is theft, regardless of how much or little service

Re: avoiding a mac address filter

2008-01-07 Thread Nick Guenther
On 1/7/08, Andreas Maus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:19:26PM -0500, Dave Anderson wrote: On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pau Amaro-Seoane wrote: loosen up a bit, you're too tight up... I just want to check my emails, I don't want to download p0nr movies Theft of service is