Comments on: Re-encrypting WiFi

By: .

Wed, 27 Apr 2011 23:09:09 +0000

The three stories all fall along the same theme: a Buffalo man, Sarasota man, and Syracuse man all found themselves being raided by the FBI or police after their wireless networks were allegedly used to download child pornography. "You're a creep... just admit it," one FBI agent was quoted saying to the accused party. In all three cases, the accused ended up getting off the hook after their files were examined and neighbors were found to be responsible for downloading child porn via unsecured WiFi networks.

By: Three strikes rules for internet piracy

Three strikes rules for internet piracy — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:08:08 +0000

[...] for someone to use software tools to access a nearby network and then use it for illegal purposes. My own experience with wireless networks has demonstrated that people really will use them for criminal purposes if they can gain [...]

By: .

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:13:27 +0000

WPA cracked in 15 minutes or less, or your next router’s free

They always knew it could be done; that a hacker with enough time and processing power could watch your WPA-protected wireless network and, eventually, decrypt your precious datas. In under 15 minutes, though? “Inconceivable!” those hypothetical security experts would say — but they’re about to get a lesson from WiFi wizard Erik Tews. He’ll be giving a presentation next week at the PacSec Conference in Tokyo, describing the “mathematical breakthrough” that, he says, enables him to crack WPA-TKIP in 12 to 15 minutes.

By: a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » WiFi wars

a sibilant intake of breath » Blog Archive » WiFi wars — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:38:11 +0000

[...] Everyone would have faster and more reliable internet access if we could shut down all but a couple of the access points. Unfortunately, there is no way to coordinate such an action. Furthermore, anyone who actually ran one of the reduced number of access points, if such an agreement could be reached, would be faced with the same kind of illicit usage that forced me to shut down my open network. [...]

By: Anon

Anon — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:56:12 +0000

You could call your network something like: “Call XYZ number for access.” That would let you screen potential users, to some degree.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:30:37 +0000

Someone who really wanted to eliminate the files would probably have copied a hard drive wiping virus onto your system, then set it up to execute automatically when you rebooted.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:24:03 +0000

I need those videos back. The videos can probably still be recovered from your hard drive, provided they haven't been overwritten. I don't know of a way to do a multi-pass-type secure wipe on a shared drive, so all I could do was remove the flags indicating those blocks of data were important to keep. See: Data remanence, Data recovery, Zeroisation.

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:20:35 +0000

I’ve nominated your blog for a Brillante award. On the basis of a minimal Google-based investigation, it seems that a 'brilliante award' is a kind of internet mind virus.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:14:45 +0000

Please. The “Random Buffoon that I Live With ”

(I need those videos back. For reasons that are neither illegal, nor require me to send thousands of dollars in recompense to the Puerto Rican mob.)

By: Milan

Milan — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:11:59 +0000

You joke, surely.

You would never leave such videos in a place where some random buffoon could elimate them.

By: Emily

Emily — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:10:00 +0000

.. my collection of low res MPEG cock-fighting videos!!

Where have they gone?!

By: Davi Ottenheimer

Davi Ottenheimer — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:40:21 +0000

Not surprised. Open networks, like any public space, must be regulated in some fashion to detect and prevent abuse. If you don’t do it on your end then someone upstream will be watching traffic registered under your identity and come to you for an explanation.