Leechers on your Broadband

watty

I'm not sure how well this will work, but it's more imaginative thinking than the Stereotype of Mr Plod.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/07/17/oz_plod_wardriving/

Onikage

Finding unsecured networks is easy, just use the same techniques as the wardrivers. How would they find out which house/office/apartment the offending router is in? Seems a better idea would be to flag areas as vulnerable to abuse and do a general information campaign, rather than trying to find and warn each individual owner like the article suggests. Top marks for effort though!

Knasher

Triangulation would give you what building its in, and for the suburbs that would be enough. For apartment blocks, it would be harder to find out which one its in.

jor el

Folk found to be in possession of an un-WEPed WLAN will be warned of the dangers they face

Even those with WEP should be warned, as WEP is pretty much useless. Everyone should be using WPA.

Can you imagine the same thing being done here, what with the absolute abundance of eircom WEP routers that have never had the security changed?

BadCRC

Onikage wrote: »

Finding unsecured networks is easy, just use the same techniques as the wardrivers. How would they find out which house/office/apartment the offending router is in? Seems a better idea would be to flag areas as vulnerable to abuse and do a general information campaign, rather than trying to find and warn each individual owner like the article suggests. Top marks for effort though!

Rather than trying to locate the owner they could just login to the router and change the network name to SECURE_YOUR_BLOODY_ROUTER_YOU_FLAMING_MUNGRELS or something similarly Aussi.

The amount of Tech support calls generated might pursuade some of the Aussi ISPs to start supplying routers with security defaulted to on.