Posted by BGN on 04/17/06 06:15

On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:39:11 +0100, Adam Rice
<MY_NAME@NO_SPAMgmail.com> wrote:

>On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 22:12:20 +0100, "Tricky Dicky"
><tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>But I was not even using the wireless features of the router! Which is what
>>bugs me.
>>
>>Btw, I would love to trace who the people were who decided that my
>>inadvertently open connection was worth using. I still have their MAC
>>addresses if that helps
>
>Well, I would say that they are either your next door neighbours (in
>which case they are easy to trace, and probably meant no harm anyway),
>or they are the sort of hard core people who drive around with laptops
>actively looking for insecure connections (in which case you have
>virtually no hope of tracing them, regardless of their intentions -
>and you would need far more evidence than just the MAC addresses I
>think).

Plus one can change a MAC address anyway.
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