[PLUG] Fun with IPTables

[Tim Slighter]

Some food for thought for the paranoid,  ever wondered if when you hop onto
someone's wireless network for free, do they have an entire arsenal of
sniffers hooked up on their wireless network and they are capturing all of
your traffic so it can be used later?  Last time I accidentally ended up on
someone else's wireless network without any authentication, wep, or mac
filtering and got a DHCP address, I started wondering, suppose this is a
trap or a home grown honey pot and they are harvesting sniffed passwords?

On 28 Jul 2006 12:01:08 -0700, Russell Senior <russell at personaltelco.net>
wrote:
>
> >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Olsen <alan.olsen at gmail.com> writes:
>
> Alan> http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html
>
> Which begins: "My neighbours are stealing my wireless internet
> access. I could encrypt it or alternately I could have fun."
>
> Or, alternatively, you could decide to announce that it is
> intentionally available for sharing.  See the Personal Telco Project,
> for example:
>
>   <http://www.personaltelco.net/>
>
> With all the recent hoo-haw over the Unwire Portland (MetroFi)
> project, it bares realizing that we could easily have vastly better
> wireless network access than MetroFi can ever provide *this afternoon*
> if people simply decided to affirmatively, intentionally share their
> existing internet access.  Individually-deployed wireless is so dense
> in Portland *today* that it's not even funny.  How powerful and
> generally useful could it be if we all decided to share it?
>
>
> --
> Russell Senior, Secretary
> russell at personaltelco.net
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