Is getting free Wi-Fi from the neighborhood illegal?

[Digital_Trans]

I just moved into my own town house in North Las Vegas and am awaiting for the cable company to come out and set my high-speed INTERNET connection up. I noticed that I was getting free INTERNET from the area I live in. Is there anything wrong with getting it free?

[Q]

Grey area.

I say that if you leave your network wide open, you WANT people to use it.

[Digital_Trans]

Originally Posted by Q

Grey area.

I say that if you leave your network wide open, you WANT people to use it.

Well it's fast and I even played some UT3 over the network...lmao!

[AthlonXP1800]

Yeah good for you to get free internet if you dont know where the wifi from then it not illegal and also if you actually know someone who use wifi then it illegal to access this without the wifi owner's permission.

[Digital_Trans]

What are the security risks of doing it and what would you do in order to not get caught if any?

[AthlonXP1800]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trans

What are the security risks of doing it and what would you do in order to not get caught if any?

There are no security risks when you doing it in your house but risks caught when you sit, stand outside houses or in the car for long period that will raise suspicious.

My wifi network locked with assinged MAC codes only from my laptop, itouch and UMPC that are allowed to access the internet and people are not allowed to access it without my permission.

[Runningman]

Originally Posted by AthlonXP1800

There are no security risks when you doing it in your house but risks caught when you sit, stand outside houses or in the car for long period that will raise suspicious.

My wifi network locked with assinged MAC codes only from my laptop, itouch and UMPC that are allowed to access the Internet and people are not allowed to access it without my permission.

You call that security? lol. really, it wasn't worth the effort.

[Runningman]

Originally Posted by Digital_Trans

What are the security risks of doing it and what would you do in order to not get caught if any?

well the access point could be setup to log and intercept your traffic. A malicious operator could have set that AP up to sniff all your traffic to capture user names and password or do a reverse attack against your machine and then launch attacks that could lead to key logging or other malicious activities. The only way to really protect yourself is not to do it. Not that i have done any of this.

[Digital_Trans]

Stop the press who is that? The knowledge base grows! HEHEH! HAHAHA! HO! HO! My Belkin N1 Wireless USB 2.0 Adapter is kicking some free a$$ high-speed internet! I just canceled my internet appointment lol! And that accounts for my notebook and deskop pc...

[AthlonXP1800]

Originally Posted by Runningman

well the access point could be setup to log and intercept your traffic. A malicious operator could have set that AP up to sniff all your traffic to capture user names and password or do a reverse attack against your machine and then launch attacks that could lead to key logging or other malicious activities. The only way to really protect yourself is not to do it. Not that i have done any of this.

Interesting, I looked up on internet about wifi sniffer software and surprised to read that it can capture username and password but when I looked at other site I wont named which I was shocked to read that the $300 software can sniff Wifi LAN and capture wired/switched LAN as well as ICQ, IRC, MSN and Email. It seem here is no way to protect yourself on LAN without wifi and the solution is to switch off when not in use. It is a threat to national security if many people use the tool.

Wonder is here a wifi sniff capture program for my itouch?

[ViN86]

depends.

some neighborhoods have free wi-fi, but only i you live in the neighborhood. however, if you mean your neighbor is too stupid to enabled security features, or you circumvented the security features, then you are breaking the law.

[Digital_Trans]

Interesting data.....