What's the basic security issue with an unsecured home router?
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Posted by Sharon on May 26, 2008, 1:13 am
Please log in for more thread options wireless networks. I can actually connect and use his internet connection (3 bars) but I have my own (five bars) so that in and of itself is of limited interest to me. Still, I wonder. It's almost as if he's extended a palms-out open invitation to me to do something, anything. (Am I a bad person for even thinking this?) There must be some reason people go to the trouble to secure their routers (mine, for example, is secured with a password at least). May I ask what earthly advantage would it be to have the good fortune of unfettered access to my neighbor's wireles router short of mischief? What would I want to do that would be of benefit? | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Bill Kearney on May 26, 2008, 1:32 am
Please log in for more thread options Be a good neighbor, suggest they secure it. > It's almost as if he's extended a palms-out open invitation to me to do
> something, anything. (Am I a bad person for even thinking this?) Sure, and if he leaves his lawnmower out in the yard, that's just an invitation to use it, right? Or perhaps a better analogy would be leaving his TV on and using your remote to watch premium channels. After all, he's already paying for it, right? It's called theft of service. Sure, you can 'get away with it'. Until you can't, then you're stuck being the thief in the neighborhood. > There must be some reason people go to the trouble to secure their routers
> (mine, for example, is secured with a password at least). Yes, to allow the piece of mind to know what they're paying for isn't being stolen by others. > May I ask what earthly advantage would it be to have the good fortune of
> unfettered access to my neighbor's wireles router short of mischief? > What would I want to do that would be of benefit? What, all this just to troll for this nonsense? Find better uses for your time, I'm sure that To Do list is calling... | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by curt on May 26, 2008, 8:42 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 26 May 2008 01:32:27 -0400, Bill Kearney wrote:
> What, all this just to troll for this nonsense? Find better uses for
> your time, I'm sure that To Do list is calling... Hey, I think the OP didn't sound right asking the question but I think the question, in and of itself, is not a bad one to ask. I myself, would like to understand exactly why we go through the efforts of securing our networks and precisely what types of things can be done against us if we don't. To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and in the wrong place. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Sharon on May 26, 2008, 10:24 am
Please log in for more thread options On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:42:04 GMT, curt wrote:
> To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and in
> the wrong place. Sorry. I just don't see why I go to the trouble to secure my router if all it does is allow my closest neighbors to get bad bars of service. | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by Bert Hyman on May 26, 2008, 11:01 am
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> On Mon, 26 May 2008 12:42:04 GMT, curt wrote:
>> To the OP : I think you are asking your question in the wrong way and
>> in the wrong place. >
> Sorry. I just don't see why I go to the trouble to secure my router if > all it does is allow my closest neighbors to get bad bars of service. It allows them to masquerade as you, or at least masquerade as a paying customer of your ISP. Once he's connected to your router, if he accesses the Internet, he has your IP address. Further, if you have any PCs on an internal LAN, he has access to all of them, limited only by whatever security you've activated on them, if any. -- Bert Hyman St. Paul, MN bert@iphouse.com | ||||||||||||||||
> wireless networks.