How stupid is this. Should it be the owner of the Wifi who should be smacked for leaving his AP unprotected?
"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) – Police have arrested a man for using someone else’s wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.
Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.
Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon’s house using a laptop computer. "
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Re: Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal
I recently got broadband at my new place. I have two machines and both of them are wired to the router. But I intend to add a wireless router in the near future for my laptop connectivity. How do you protect your "AP." And what is AP anyway?
Re: Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal
AP = Access Point?
There are a couple of ways to protect :
A)WEP encryption, WPA encryption etc
B)enable DHCP (client registers mac address)
I believe WEP is really easy to crack though...search for Whoppix.
Re: Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal
There a few different ways to protect the AP. One of them is WEP which, as Bandoosta said, can be creaked (but then again what can't be cracked these days). On my AP I also have MAC filtering enabled. MAC is a unique identifier for all NIC's, so the AP checks to see if the new MAC is listed in its list and then it asks for the WEP key.
WPA (wifi Protected Access) is another way to protect the AP, and at home u can use the pre-shared key, or at work you can use RADIUS or something similar.