WiFi happiness
- Posted by Kati on August 27th, 2003 filed in Lifeblog in english
Ignore the rant below. I came home after work, and booted my new laptop to play with it. Windows comes up and there’s this lovely little popup notifying me that i am now conneceted to the internet wirelessly. I did not even touch the darn network settings, i did not do anything. My laptop just connected.
I guess somebody in the neighborhood has a wireless LAN and they don’t have any security features enabled on it. The sygnal is very weak, but when it’s there, it’s really quick.
Now, i will research what the community verdict is on using other people’s wifi. I don’t intend to use it for downloading 1gig movies, so i hope whoever blessed me with this connection doesn’t mind. I have no idea how to even try finding out where this is coming from…
Any thoughts on whether this is a big no-no, or not, please share in the comments!
September 5th, 2003 at 11:49 pm
Hey, it’s BreezyK from nervousness. Just randomly popped into your site from the webring.
I read this article a long time ago about an underground movement that tags sidewalks w/ symbols where you can piggyback on someone’s internet connection. Odd. You should check the sidewalk outside your place and see if there are any strange heiroglyphics.
I’d be paranoid about my own security if I used someone else’s conntection.
September 6th, 2003 at 3:04 am
Hi!
I was wondering about that too… security. So i didn’t do any serious things like shopping with a credit card or something. I know about that site you mentioned, it’s called warchalking, and it’s a very cool thing. The neighbor closed their connection two days ago, i guess they realized that it shouldn’t be open. Oh well.
I just bought unlimited access at a local Wifi provider, but that only works at hotspots so i have to travel a bit to be able to surf, but that’s alright. I like to get out of the house a lot anyway. Nice to hear from you! :)
Kati