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[+DJ Dark]

SPEhosting, on 11 October 2012 - 19:04, said:

who says im not a mac user im an all rounder baby! YEA!

also its more the fact im sitting in my room and can see atleast 6 macs broadcasting ...fine it might not be EVERYONE with a mac but still WHY JEBUS

>.> Have you used AS/400 before....? -.- it's part of my daily nightmare (work...)

[.Neo]

Internet Sharing is always off by default. As far as I know you can choose witch method you want to use to secure the signal with.

Why exactly does this annoy you?

[SPEhosting]

.Neo, on 13 October 2012 - 14:15, said:

Internet Sharing is always off by default. As far as I know you can choose witch method you want to use to secure the signal with.

Why exactly does this annoy you?

because its a security hole a massive one... im connected to the same network as these people... its hard to explain the network setup but if hackers get in they have the ability to hide behind this person no authentication needed ... once you are in a network you can **** with it easily

[Glassed Silver]

SPEhosting, on 13 October 2012 - 20:44, said:

because its a security hole a massive one... im connected to the same network as these people... its hard to explain the network setup but if hackers get in they have the ability to hide behind this person no authentication needed ... once you are in a network you can **** with it easily

Tell them to use another subnet (if possible) and to encrypt their traffic.

I don't know about the legal side of things, but I guess you could tell them that they are major threats to the infrastructure and going with anything less than WPA2 is ridiculous.

Oh and maybe the network admin will sort this out, that is unless they hear you and accept what you say.
If they don't, well, the admin probably will fix this pronto lol

PS: if you don't know the people's names as their SSIDs they chose don't ring a bell for you, you might want to consider putting a flier in your house, which should be a good hint to anyone thinking about doing that in future.

Glassed Silver:mac

[SMELTN]

DJ Dark, on 13 October 2012 - 14:05, said:

>.> Have you used AS/400 before....? -.- it's part of my daily nightmare (work...)

AS/400 nightmares here at well. Thats what we use at work full time so yeah I know your pain.

[+DJ Dark]

SMELTN, on 13 October 2012 - 23:22, said:

AS/400 nightmares here at well. Thats what we use at work full time so yeah I know your pain.

The only nice this is I don't have to do DBA at work.... just data entry...

[Leonick]

SPEhosting, on 13 October 2012 - 20:44, said:

because its a security hole a massive one... im connected to the same network as these people... its hard to explain the network setup but if hackers get in they have the ability to hide behind this person no authentication needed ... once you are in a network you can **** with it easily

Don't think you have to worry about that, if this internet sharing works like internet sharing usually does anyone connecting to one of these sharing laptops they'll be in a WiFi network with just that laptop, it won't pass them on through to the next network. Technically I guess you might be able to get past that as well but he won't get on to the actual network you're on.

[Shadrack]

Leonick, on 18 October 2012 - 16:05, said:

Don't think you have to worry about that, if this internet sharing works like internet sharing usually does anyone connecting to one of these sharing laptops they'll be in a WiFi network with just that laptop, it won't pass them on through to the next network. Technically I guess you might be able to get past that as well but he won't get on to the actual network you're on.

I don't think the OP has so much of a problem to solve as a bone to pick.

[.Neo]

SPEhosting, on 13 October 2012 - 20:44, said:

because its a security hole a massive one... im connected to the same network as these people... its hard to explain the network setup but if hackers get in they have the ability to hide behind this person no authentication needed ... once you are in a network you can **** with it easily

What? As long as you have your Mac set up properly everyone needs authentication to get access.

[Shadrack]

.Neo, on 19 October 2012 - 10:26, said:

What? As long as you have your Mac set up properly everyone needs authentication to get access.

It is also not-at-all trivial to disable said authentication.

[dead.cell]

SPEhosting, on 10 October 2012 - 11:28, said:

Why do mac users turn and leave on there broadcaster ... they are sending out a wireless signal to connect to ... most of them being WEP why? is it a standard on thing? it annoys me ... I am sitting in a cafe right now and Im so restrained

Maybe they wanted to play on their Nintendo DS, as it only works with WEP if I recall correctly.

[.Neo]

Shadrack, on 21 October 2012 - 20:58, said:

It is also not-at-all trivial to disable said authentication.

By default nobody can access OS X without authentication. So unless SPEhosting turned File Sharing on himself, added his whole Macintosh HD to the "Shared Folders" list and specifically gave "Everyone" "Read & Write" access I have no idea what he's moaning about. Even in such a bizarre scenario things are easily corrected by either turning File Sharing off completely or removing whatever sensitive folders are added from the list.