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Re: OT:Why Do Wireless Routers Ship With Security Switched Off?

Posted by Electric Frog on 04/21/06 17:57

"Tricky Dicky" <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote in message
news:1145217671.3796.0@damia.uk.clara.net...
>
> "BGN" <nickmooney@spamcop.net> wrote in message
> news:o58542pspurictnibs2tpo6t74l5riscvc@4ax.com...
> > On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 20:04:02 +0100, "Tricky Dicky"
> > <tricky@nospam.clara.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>Having been using my router for a few months now just for its hardware
> >>firewall and ethernet connection I was appalled to just find that three
> >>other computer had decided to join my network!
> >
> > You never noticed?
>
> I hate to say it but no. If anything untoward had been happening then I
> would have noticed.
>
> Could it be that these other users never even noticed that they were
> connected to my router?
>
>
In their defence, there are three unsecured linksys routers in my apartment
building and once (maybe others) my secured router was having problems and
it was only accidentally I noticed that my laptop had decided to go and
join one of their routers when it was unable to connect to mine :-S

 

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