OT: unathorized network user.

[John Summerfield]

Jimmy Bradley wrote:
>        I live in an apartment complex, and I have a wireless network
> that most of the time, I run encrypted. For some reason, in order for my
> Linux machines to see my one remaining windows machine, I have to turn
> off the encryption. Not long after I turn the encryption off, there is
> some one who lives near me, whose machine gets on my network.
>         Now,get this, apparently the machine is setup to share the whole
> hard drive,because I can see all the folders on the hard drive. By the
> way, it's an 80gig hard drive. I have written and saved text files to
> the machine's desktop, asking the person to stay off my network, but
> they continue to get on my network. The last text message I saved to the
> person's desktop was a message saying that they have ignored all my
> warnings, so they leave me no choice but to fill up their hard drive.
> So far, I have filled their hard drive about halfway up, and they still
> get on my network. I haven't saved any malicious files to their machine.
> It's mostly been Linux distro iso's and video(no porn)and audio files
> that I know they won't like. Just nice big files.
>         This person has to be clueless as to what is going on. You'd
> think they would've noticed something by now.
>         My question is, does anyone have any other ideas as to handle
> this problem? I mean, I don't want to fill this person's hard drive up,
> but if I have to, I will.

And the odds are good that if you do that, and the owner identifies you 
as the one who's done that, that you yourself might spend time in 
custody; that would be the case in Australia, and it's most likely the 
case in USA.

It seems the owner of the offending computer is fairly harmless (and I 
know someone who's used someone else's Internet w/o knowing it), but if 
BigSpammer uses your wireless for a time, it's you who will carry the 
blame. And if BigSpammer happens to be promoting Holy Jihad[1], _you_ 
can look to some time in Camp X-ray.

[1] I know that not all interpretations of Jihad have anything to do 
with terrorism, but try to tell that to the current Administration.

Find me with those who suggest you fix your network. At least, blacklist 
his MAC. It's not much protection, but it will stop the ignorant.


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Cheers
John

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