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igotthisguitar
Joined: 08 Apr 2003
Location: South Korea (Permanent Vacation)
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 Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:56 am Post subject: Wireless Piggybacking Case Sets Precedent: Experts |
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Wireless Piggybacking Case Sets Precedent: Experts
Sun Mar 25, 10:35 PM
SINGAPORE (AFP) - When 17-year-old Garyl Tan Jia Luo "piggybacked" on his neighbour's unsecured wireless Internet network to chat online, he could not have imagined that in doing so he would make Asian legal history.
Information technology (IT) experts and lawyers say Tan was the first in Singapore, and possibly Asia, to be sentenced in court for "wireless mooching," or piggybacking on an unsecured wireless network to surf the Internet.
A judge in the city-state's district court sentenced him to 18 months' probation in January.
Tech-savvy Singapore, one of Asia's most wired nations, appears to be the regional pioneer in "clamping down" on wireless network freeloaders, IT experts and lawyers said.
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http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/070326/technology/technology_singapore_security_internet_1 |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:07 am Post subject: |
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Damn, thats harsh!!
I wonder how they found out it was him? |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 2:45 am Post subject: |
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You mean he wasn't cained?
He must have done it more than once. Many routers will keep a log of the MAC ID #'s which log onto the network. He must have been found out, reported, and policed sniffed out the MAC ID location. |
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Gord
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:36 am Post subject: |
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| ...and policed sniffed out the MAC ID location. |
That doesn't make any sense. MAC IDs do not carry secret GPS coordinates or anything that would assist in tracking of a wireless device.
More likely, he named his computer "Timmy Chan's Computer" which most (all?) logging software would also track in a short-term log and that was his next-door neighbor. I occasionally check who has been using my business's open wireless for curiousity, and I'm always terribly amused when I see the store two doors down using it who have requested that I be evicted because my customers scare his customers.
It's a toss-up whether I wish to point 10% of his web requests to random porn sites, or just fill his hard drive (through shared folders) with tranny porn which will be terribly amusing the repair computer when he takes his computer there to be looked at as they don't strike me as being terribly tech savy. |
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mlomker
Joined: 21 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 1:47 pm Post subject: |
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| That doesn't make any sense. |
It's actually very easy to triangulate anything that transits...you just need two antennas spaced a bit apart and you can use the signal strength and some simple trigonometry to find the location.
In the case of WiFi, the range is very limited...either it's somebody living next to you or a guy sitting with a laptop computer in the parking lot (the only sort they've bothered prosecuting in the States). |
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Giant
Joined: 14 May 2003
Location: South Korea
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Hmmm, what kind of business do you run that scares customers? You certainly peaked my curiosity. |
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gsxr750r
Joined: 29 Jan 2007
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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| That doesn't make any sense. |
It's actually very easy to triangulate anything that transits...you just need two antennas spaced a bit apart and you can use the signal strength and some simple trigonometry to find the location.
In the case of WiFi, the range is very limited...either it's somebody living next to you or a guy sitting with a laptop computer in the parking lot (the only sort they've bothered prosecuting in the States). |
Exactly. You don't even need to triangulate. Just knock on doors close-by. If it's a reoccurring problem, then you'll know it's probably a neighbor. These things don't transmit very far (yet). There are also certain programs that allow you to see what people are doing over wifi, if it's not encrypted with WPA, for example (WEP is not safe anymore).
Gord, I laughed at the tranny porn idea.  |
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