charlie

its a good connection - i might stop paying my own - 335kB/sec
just done 35MB in 1min30secs!

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retired_member16

Spent time in trying to find a link on theregister.co.uk in which I read that it was illegal.

Buggered if I can find it now. - FC might be right, hacking is bad but taking what isnt yours is frowned on too I would think?

charlie

oh i agree with all the princibles - personally if i had an 8mb line running , in fact anything running during the day when i wasn;t in the peeps are welcome to use it - when it affects my downloads then i have the right to flick it to private
cant see the harm really
free is free

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tifosi

Generous, sure.

But why invest in all the fancy firewalls, routers with firewalls, virus checkers, etc, and then bypass all that by letting some backstreet hacker have free reign to your LAN?

Most people also don't have their HD partitioned and the system folders locked down. The no of people I know who have all this stuff and then load on peer-peer programs using unsecured folders is shocking.

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El Dude

I would totally leech their connection! Of course they can see you if they look the DHCP client list in their routers CP, but chances are they don't know what that is and defiantly wouldn't be sniffing your traffic because their WLAN is unsecured. Any tech savvy dude would know how important it is to WEP up their WLAN.

If you have a Laptop then go download Net Stumbler and have a drive about town and see whos WLANs aren't secured. Just remember not to do anything naughty on someone elses network and you your be fine.


EDIT: Oh, and remember to change your host name if it's something that can get you recognised