[PLUG] Fun with IPTables

[Tim Slighter]

The real solution is to revert back to direct cable connection for home
networks and toss the wireless stuff.

As for SSH tunnels, I beg to disagree and contend that there should not even
be an SSH tunnel, the less services running on your home system, the less
opportunity for people trying to find a way in.



On 7/28/06, Sean Whitney <sean.whitney at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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