Guy didn't secure his router, got raided by ICE agents

[modelflyer2003]

NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers - Yahoo! News

This guy should have secured his web access, but the Immigration and Customs Enforcement did a dynamic entry into his home and roughed him up. Make sure you glance through the comments at the bottom of the page. Jack Boot Thugs strike again. For those that say why does this belong here, the JBT were carrying...wait for it....guns.

 

[shooter1054]

When I'm not using my routers in my woodshop, they are safely secured in my trailer...but this might be a different router then you are talking about.

 

[singlesix]

Turn on MAC address filtering also; this only allows the MAC addresses (each Network device has a unique ID) on your white list to access the router.

 

[mrw]

MAC addresses are easy to spoof. You need to run wpa2 with AES only to be secure.

 

[snowman46919]

MAC addresses are easy to spoof. You need to run wpa2 with AES only to be secure.

still easy enough to crack for some one with enough time and enough traffic to analyze

 

[singlesix]

MAC addresses are easy to spoof. You need to run wpa2 with AES only to be secure.

I guess the meaning of "ALSO" is unknown? I didn't say use MAC filtering ONLY. I'm sure the neighbor in the article would have be able to spoof the MAC address.

 

[japartridge]

still easy enough to crack for some one with enough time and enough traffic to analyze

Cracking WPA2 with AES is very difficult... I've tried for work, running on high end servers and couldn't do it after 14 days.

 

[HDSilvrStreak]

All of those steps are helpful and a strong deterrent. Yes, it's true that MAC addresses can be spoofed (I'm guessing at least 1/3 of people here have never heard the term though) and encryption can be hacked. But it secures you from 99.9% of people as most don't know how to do those things. Also, those that do know how will probably just move on to an easier target since there are many, many unsecured routers out there.

 

[thompal]

Cracking WPA2 with AES is very difficult... I've tried for work, running on high end servers and couldn't do it after 14 days.

Yeah, but if you lived next door to someone, and had weeks of 24/7 with nothing useful to do, you could do it.

 

[ljadayton]

THIS is why my wi fi is locked down. Couldn't remember the password?

 

[christman]

nerds.

 

[ljadayton]

nerds.

 

[snowman46919]

nerds.

pays the bills

thats all you have had to say in a few threads now

 

[ljadayton]

thats all you have had to say in a few threads now

yeah, I know. Some days it's better to throw out the popcorn then to actually say what I'm thinking

 

[snowman46919]

Cracking WPA2 with AES is very difficult... I've tried for work, running on high end servers and couldn't do it after 14 days.

2 dollars an hour with amazon cloud servers, the right software and the right dictionaries there are hundreds of proof of concept videos online

Yeah, but if you lived next door to someone, and had weeks of 24/7 with nothing useful to do, you could do it.

My buddy does that with his mac constantly just for fun

yeah, I know. Some days it's better to throw out the popcorn then to actually say what I'm thinking

CHICKEN

 

[ljadayton]

CHICKEN

maybe later when I come back. I won't describe what I did to the last guy to call me a chicken

 

[singlesix]

pays the bills

^^^^^this and if we really get mad at you we'll hack your router and download the Bill of Rights ... than Obama's Brownshirts will come for you

 

[snowman46919]

^^^^^this and if we really get mad at you we'll hack your router and download the Bill of Rights ... than Obama's Brownshirts will come for you

I prefer a rather inocuous batch file that deletes all that illegally downloaded music people tend to have and never change the directories of where they downloaded them to.

 

[ljadayton]

I prefer a rather inocuous batch file that deletes all that illegally downloaded music people tend to have and never change the directories of where they downloaded them to.

OOOOHHHH, the HORROR




And just for Snowman

 

[christman]