Wannabe wifi jacker pwned

, posted: 21-Feb-2007 12:31

I was talking to a colleague yesterday, who freely admitted to connecting to someone else's WiFi router and using that as a temporary connection, and also spotted this thread on Kiwiblog, in which most who comment seem to think it's fine to jack bandwidth.

Me, I think a little civility goes a long way, and wasn't surprised to be told about a certain "Detopeach" taking umbrage to unauthorised bandwidth borrowing:
Detopeach

The site in question has now removed the above "greeting" but that little warning about free wireless is worth heeding. It's a hostile Intarweb out there, even for bandwidth bandits.

Thread on NZRave.com with further reinforcement why it's not clever to take advantage of "free wireless" just because you can.


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Comment by MikeE, on 21-Feb-2007 13:31

Yeah.. its my mates flatmate.

Kris_b got pwned.


Comment by MikeE, on 21-Feb-2007 13:37

Whats funnier is Oddity (beau) - the origional poster had a flatmate who kept stealing his food.

So he set up a webcam and caught him in the act, dressed in his underware.

Hillarity ensues when said food theif sees the webcam and feed and freaks out.

Oddity has it uploaded on the web somewhere too.


Author's note by juha, on 21-Feb-2007 13:40

Ahhh... now there's a clip I'd like to see. Not because of the undies though.


Comment by Tro-izzle, on 22-Feb-2007 13:02

Zomg, its teh War Doctor V himself! Welldone detobate, famous at last.


Comment by barf, on 22-Feb-2007 13:03

Stashguard! I remember that!
Good on y'Oddity barf says 'yo'!


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