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- Bryan

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Bryan Thompson
Vermont, USA
AIM: bryantg3

 
On Thursday, April 05, 2007, at 02:12AM, "Vince Rossano" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>I haven't read all the posts on this issue, but it seems to me that an opportunity is being missed here for you folks with a bunch of residential wireless networks within range of your school.  It works like this:  Kid comes to you and says his teacher wants him to download this three-hour-long educational video.  No problem.  "Gimme that laptop kid; I gotta reconfigure it.  Let's take a look at the wireless resources here. Okay, see that one that says 'linksys'?  That's the one we want.  Go for it, kid!"  
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>Hey, the people are probably off at work anyway.  Who's to know?  Or care?  And if the people do find out and complain, you tell them that a kid accessed some pornography over their network.  Explain that it's punishable by forty years in prison, but assure them you'll keep quiet about it if they keep their network unsecured.  You establish enough of these "arrangements" and you can tell your ISP to cut your bandwidth back 50%.  You'll be a hero with your school board for the money you'll save, and you've picked up some valuable experience in extortion and theft-of-services to put in your vita.  Next stop: K Street.
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>You guys gotta think smarter.  C'mon, huh!
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>>>> On 4/4/2007 at 8:36 PM, Eric Hall <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> I know of one instance that this happened: a school laptop set to DCHP and
>> auto-connect to wireless ended up connecting to a nearby home network.
>> Internet worked fine, but when the user had trouble with network shares and
>> printers the Tech folks figured out what had happened!
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>>> A thought from last months discussion. I wonder if a user (faculty or staff)
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>>> their machine to automatically connect at home to an out-of-the-box wireless
>>> router/ap (default configuration) and there was a nearby system at school
>>> with the exact same SSID, etc (default config) wouldn't that machine try and
>>> connect to the nearby wireless?
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>>> Subject: Unsecured wireless in nearby homes
>>> From: Steve Jarrett <[log in to unmask]>
>>> Reply-To: School Information Technology Discussion <SCHOOL-Date: Fri, 16
>>> Mar 2007 11:06:32 -0400
>>>      We would like to hear if and how districts are dealing with unsecured
>>> wireless access points in nearby homes that provide unrestricted Internet
>>> access to students' and staff's personally-owned machines in school. ...
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