wifi at home and hacking?
Have been having issues with the networked PCs in our house recently. Started to get a message on one that said someone has been downloading The Simpsons and the latest (not released yet) Spongebob m...
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mabynack wrote:
I came home from work one night and found three strange cars parked in front of my house. The drivers were sitting in the cars. I asked my daughter what was going on and she said that they were probably using our WIFI. I found out that a local web site had published a list of local WIFI hotspots and my house was on the list.
I put a password on my router and it hasn't happened again.
The school located a quarter of a mile from me has wifi and they didn't password it initially. I could access their wifi - but the signal was weak and the data transfer rate was pretty slow and spotty.
No one commented on this? The OP claims they are in the country and on a free wifi list on the internet. So if true clearly the router was not password protected.
