[PLUG] Fun with IPTables

[Sean Whitney]

That's why you set up ssh tunnels for everything on your laptop.....


Sean

Tim Slighter wrote:
> 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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