Rule of Tim - Wireless Network

You could always use it to do something illegal and then wait and see which neighbour plod comes round to arrest... ;)

Personally I would drop all my morals and make as much free use of it as possible...

Twas Mon, 5 Apr 2004 16:54:02 +0100 when "David French" put finger to keyboard producing:

you could see if you could access the desktop folder of one of their machines and leave a text file there

-- Regards. Mark.(AKA, Mr.Nice.) ___________________________________________________________ "To know the character of a man, give him anonymity" - Mr.Nice.

By all means use the network, but make no mistake - reconfiguring the AP or dropping a file on one of their machines is a criminal act (Unauthorised modification of data - part of the Computer Misuse Act) and can get you in to deep doodoo.

P.

My aim is to alert them to the fact that they're wide open. If I wanted to screw up their network or damage anything, I would have done that already without alerting thousands of newsgroup readers to the fact...

David

On or around Mon, 5 Apr 2004 18:36:27 +0100, "David French" enlightened us thusly:

if you can deduce an email address from what you can see, then send 'em email...

..or send them a winpopup message (assuming they're running windows..)

something like

$ net send ip.add.dr.ess "Hi this is john from across the road. "

I heard a lovely story about a similar incident. A colleague, whos office is in the city centre of Glasgow, got some wireless kit in on evaluation - this was 3 or 4 years ago when this stuff was all very new.

He realised that he could see a wireless network coming from the building across the road - a large branch of a well-known store. Names removed to protect the clueless...

He could see their whole corporate network - their servers, desktops, printers, even their tills!

So he phoned them to tell them about it. Asked for their network manager. "Umm - I don't think we've got one of those." Obviously..

He tried to explain the problem to the receptionist. "Oh, is this an internet thing - I'll put you thru to our online ordering department...." Sigh.

Eventually he gave up and decided to write them a letter. He wrote the letter, explaining the problem, and printed it out.....

....on all of _their_ printers.

B.

Great idea. I just tried that. But I thought I'd test it on my own LAN first. Using * as the IP address. Forgetting I had the work VPN running. So I sent a stupid message to, hey, probably 800 or so machines on our worldwide corporate network.

Anybody got a job going spare?

David

Oh Dear :-)

I've got an opening for a network admin - but one of the criteria is going to be about "best practice when using wildcards on a corporate network" :-)

Bruce.