| Subject: | Any danger from people free riding on my wireless router? |
| Posted by: | RayLopez99 (raylopez…@gmail.com) |
| Date: | Thu, 27 Feb 2014 |
Any danger from people free riding on my wireless router?=20
The other day, much to my chagrin, I reset the D-Link router and somehow I =
accidentally erased the flash RAM so it was set to default, meaning no pass=
word for the wireless. So for a few weeks I unknowingly had a wireless acc=
ess point turned on and attracted a bunch of people from the neighborhood. =
I was able to log on the router, turn off the wireless, and from the log I=
saw the people who had logged on (I recognized a few of them since they us=
ed descriptive names for their machines, such as MariaLaptop).
My question is whether as a practical matter it matters if you are sharing =
your wireless--can somebody with non-specialized software read your email? =
I don't think so. I think they would need some sort of packet sniffer suc=
h as Fiddler or whatnot. These are regular neighbors, not hackers, that's =
why I say this. As a precaution however I changed all my passwords for onl=
ine accounts.
RL