Fear my leet hacking skills!
May. 9th, 2003 06:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chrisvenusWell, it appears I have just hacked my first network sort of. A private house network running behind a cable modem or ADSL I think. I now have full control of a machine on the inside of this house network.
Whose you ask? I think my next door neighbour. How? And indeed why do I only /think/? Well, it goes like this...
About 30 minutes ago my wireless network connection died. I tried a few things ultimately ending in a reboot and no joy. Stuck a physical connection in and looked at our gateway to see if it could see any error messages. Nope. Then housemate comes home who also has wireless so I try her laptop and hey presto, internet connection.
She is surprised as she had turned off encryption last night when out. Odd. I turn encryption off on mine and it works. Worrying I think. Maybe encryption just turned itself off. Then I notice that the IP address I have is odd. As is the gateway. As is the wireless network name. Oh, somebody else is clearly running a wireless network with no encryption nearby. :)
WHy do I think its our neigtbour? Mainly because he runs the local computer shop and so is almost certainly going to have shiny techness and things like that. Could be somebody else but he is my best bet.
Anyway, tfm is trying to work things out while I sit and giggle slightly. I personally think we just need to go into the attic and reboot our wireless thingy.
Just thought I'd share this slightly comedy thing. So anybody wanting wireless come round to goodson walk where its all free. :)
Whose you ask? I think my next door neighbour. How? And indeed why do I only /think/? Well, it goes like this...
About 30 minutes ago my wireless network connection died. I tried a few things ultimately ending in a reboot and no joy. Stuck a physical connection in and looked at our gateway to see if it could see any error messages. Nope. Then housemate comes home who also has wireless so I try her laptop and hey presto, internet connection.
She is surprised as she had turned off encryption last night when out. Odd. I turn encryption off on mine and it works. Worrying I think. Maybe encryption just turned itself off. Then I notice that the IP address I have is odd. As is the gateway. As is the wireless network name. Oh, somebody else is clearly running a wireless network with no encryption nearby. :)
WHy do I think its our neigtbour? Mainly because he runs the local computer shop and so is almost certainly going to have shiny techness and things like that. Could be somebody else but he is my best bet.
Anyway, tfm is trying to work things out while I sit and giggle slightly. I personally think we just need to go into the attic and reboot our wireless thingy.
Just thought I'd share this slightly comedy thing. So anybody wanting wireless come round to goodson walk where its all free. :)