Wireless broadband usage monitoring

[almer]

Hi Chandrika,

BT Home Hub key in standard configuration is hacked in 2 minutes anyway. Especialy if you see it show up on your list like this: "BTHomeHub-8SF5-random something". Try the BTHHkeygen.

But is this this whole thread a joke or are people really getting scared of their neighbours and liability and laws and stuff? In that case I'm going to cry for a little bit now. What was it again about good neighbours and far away friends (or is that just a Dutch expression)?

You'll have a good laugh about this over coffee with your neighbour in a few months hopefully.

Cheers,

Your internet neighbour: Almer

[ron angel]

Hi Chandrika,


You'll have a good laugh about this over coffee with your neighbour in a few months hopefully.

Cheers,

Your internet neighbour: Almer

He will probably come and visit you in prison or send a postcard from a far away country (Holland?) saying how sorry he was....

[seopo]

I wouldn't worry about it at all. Lots of people still don't have security enabled on their routers anyway or use default keys which are as worth while as none at all.

It's nice to be neighbourly

[chandrika]

hehe

We actually have shared dustbins here as well, so identifying whose crap is whose would be difficult in fact any would be terrorists would do well to use our communal bins here as they serve the entire marina where i live.

Interesting that the BT home hub key is easily crackable... thats a bit crap of them isnt it and damn if I had known that I would never have signed up for a 12 mth contract (just kidding)

I dont think its crazy to consider all security aspects of computer access these days. I maybe a little paranoid due to my own activities of constantly checking vulnerability probabilties for my own sites, which have been hacked into twice, one of my sites is listed as a phishing site somewhere on some list after one such hack, which is a bummer, as i never uploaded a natwest login page to my server, the directory got hacked due to some insecure form that i had years back, and Wige is right that u get the blame for what is ur responsibility...i did...even since removing all the hacked pages.... that site is on all sorts of blaclists after that.

So I freely admit to a level of paranoia where such things are concerend, but i would call it a healthy paranoia. Better safe than sorry and all that.

Anyway I was most worried about speed and bandwidth usage of my bb connection in this instance...but BT do have the tool installed in the router that Wige described, so I can keep an eye on that.

Thanks guys!

[ron angel]

hehe

We actually have shared dustbins here as well, so identifying whose crap is whose would be difficult in fact any would be terrorists would do well to use our communal bins here as they serve the entire marina where i live.

It is worse than I thought you live in a marina... The man next door probably has friends that work for a secret organisation which sends a mini submarine that surfaces at periscope depth in the marina.The antenna just breaks the surface during the hours of darkness connecting to your wireless network and uses it to send information to a foreign power, today your network tomorrow the world.
You must obtain a depth charge and place it on the bottom of the marina connect it via a hidden cable to your house. sit up all night and watch hub modem lights as soon as they start to flicker press the plunger on the detonator.This of course will destroy the marina and all craft in it but in cases like this it is better to be safe than sorry.must go & lie down now the headaches are coming back.....

[deepsand]

I wouldn't worry about it at all. Lots of people still don't have security enabled on their routers anyway or use default keys which are as worth while as none at all.

Which is why there are so damned many zombie machine spewing out tons of spam everyday, trying to turn other machines into zombies, trying to steal account credentials, etc..

It's nice to be neighbourly

It's also most prudent to "trust but verify."

[deepsand]

But is this this whole thread a joke or are people really getting scared of their neighbours and liability and laws and stuff? In that case I'm going to cry for a little bit now. What was it again about good neighbours and far away friends (or is that just a Dutch expression)?

Hardly a joke.

"Good fences make for good neighbors."

[wige]

"Good fences make for good neighbors."

Hm, maybe time to update that old saying?

"Good fences and strong firewalls make for good neighbors."

[deepsand]

Amen to that.

[Uncle Dog]

That's the problem with the world. Lack of trust. If we just left everything unlocked...