Re: OT:Why Do Wireless Routers Ship With Security Switched Off?

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:39:11 +0100, Adam Rice
<MY_NAME@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:12:20 +0100, "Tricky Dicky"
<tricky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

But I was not even using the wireless features of the router! Which is what
bugs me.

Btw, I would love to trace who the people were who decided that my
inadvertently open connection was worth using. I still have their MAC
addresses if that helps

Well, I would say that they are either your next door neighbours (in
which case they are easy to trace, and probably meant no harm anyway),
or they are the sort of hard core people who drive around with laptops
actively looking for insecure connections (in which case you have
virtually no hope of tracing them, regardless of their intentions -
and you would need far more evidence than just the MAC addresses I
think).

Plus one can change a MAC address anyway.
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