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Hacker-X	May 12 2006, 09:40 PM
Dedicated Member Posts: 512 Group: Admin Member #50 Joined: March 6, 2005	I've been having some problems connecting to the internet because of a computer network broadcasting wireless router signals which, in turn, kicked me off of the net. I asked my mom where she thought it was coming from, she said maybe from the neighbors house, so she called, and I was trying to tell our neighbor what's going on. As you know I can't seem to stop helping people with computer problems, so I said I'll go over (to their house) and see what I can do to stop their network from interfering with my network. I explained that their router was interfering with my router which kept both computers offline. I brought my laptop over to make sure that the neighbor's network was indeed the network that was interfering, which it was. The neighbor didn't even encrypt their wireless transmission not even to mention that anyone within the range of the router could gain access without entering a password, or a username for that matter, infact I gained access to the neighbor's network without knowing a password or username. I tried finding a solution to the problem on their desktop and their laptop. The neighbor ended up calling her ISP, once that was the call ended, some 45 minutes later, I tested the network, making sure the network was encrypted and that someone couldn't steal the connection, it was encrypted. A couple minutes later, her husband walked in, asked me what I was doing at his house and I told him about the wireless router. I walked home carrying my laptop, a few hours later the neighbor called and asked what I was doing on "his" computer. He wanted to know exactly what I did. I explained I went to control prompt typed in ipconfig/all and looked through the DNS servers so I could connected to the router control panel, but I probably had the wrong IP address because when I tried the address it gave me an error. I also mentioned running the wireless conection wizard. He told me that he put a lot of money back for his computer, and that he didn't want to have another "accident". I noticed when I logged into his desktop computer he had 2 accounts: Family and Bob (Bob is what his name is). Is it me or is he trying to hide something? I shouldn't have even bothed with trying to fix my neighbor's network. I try to help them and explain what could happen if someone with malicious intentions were to intercept the un-encrypted data, additionally the network was wide open for someone to use their router/ISP's resources. I try to help and then get interrogated, he's got to be doing something he shouldn't be if he wants to know exactly what I was doing... Bob's wife did thank me for telling them that their wireless could be hijacked, both my neighbor's and my network are working fine as of right now. I honestly think Bob thinks I'm some kind of network hacker, sure I know enough about computers and networks to hijack an un-encrypted internet connection, thats what I did the first time the neighbor's network appeared, connected to their network and despite the horrible connection I could browse the web.


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