I was just wondering because today I was setting up my latest hack + mod, a Wifi sattelite dish. And I saw at least 10 open networks out of the 15 that came up ( this is in a small town btw) the other five were wep, 3 were 64 bit, two were 128, according to kismet at least. (didnt break in, I was just curious ) I went through the hoops of connecting to the strongest Open Network,
1) Pop in a live cd
2) Use Mac Changer to change to somethign that would decode to an acer with an atheros chipset. ( thank god for nmaps config files that halped me to do this xD )
3) connected
4) Did a quick LAn security scan, to check if I might have been being monitored.
5) Connected to the router and sliced out the logs that showed I had ever been there. ( there was no password NONE)
And this got me to wondering, if this is legal, why am I hiding it? In fact... is this legal? I knew with a little effort I could take over this entires town netowrking in a matter of hours, this kind of security ashames me, with a quick 15 minute wireshark monitor, I saw about half a dozen people I could have ARP poisined. Anyway, thanks for telling me, I was just wondering :P I take like 100% more precaution then is needed, but thank you