wifi at home and hacking?

Just showing how easy it can be.
There are dozens of sites and apps for hacking.

If your router - WIFI does not have at least basic protection enabled, than anyone can sit in the street and use your router - WIFI at will.

Last summer my router went out. Until AT&T could get here, my neighbor gave me the password to one of his hot spots, that he uses for guests.
I ran 3 computers and a printer off that for over a week with no problems.

With a site name like that, probably not safe-for-anything type link. :)

Oldme wrote:
A search will show a number of programs like this.

Definitely not a safe for work type link... :(

myredracer wrote:

Naio wrote:



@myredracer, I find it incredibly creepy that your phone company is monitoring the name of every file you view on your computer.

I don't think they are continuously monitoring every file, I assume it's just illegal and copyrighted ones that get flagged.

How would they know unless they looked at every file? That includes every webpage you visit.

Naio wrote:



@myredracer, I find it incredibly creepy that your phone company is monitoring the name of every file you view on your computer.

I don't think they are continuously monitoring every file, I assume it's just illegal and copyrighted ones that get flagged. The only time I know they look at our files is when you have some sort of problem and call their internet/computer support center and sometimes they may go through your files looking for viruses and malware. Or maybe there is monitoring going on that the public doesn't know about related to cybercrime and terrorist activity?

rwbradley wrote:
I am not sure if this applies, but normally Bittorrent clients are always downloading. Most people do not know that when you close the client it just hides it, but it continues to download/upload in the background. So if the Nephew was downloading these shows at home and went to Starbucks and connected to their WIFI, it would pickup where it left off and continue downloading. If he came over to visit you and you connected him to your WIFI, well his computer would still be downloading.

Thanks for that. Very interesting and never would have known that.

rwbradley wrote:
I am not sure if this applies, but normally Bittorrent clients are always downloading. Most people do not know that when you close the client it just hides it, but it continues to download/upload in the background. So if the Nephew was downloading these shows at home and went to Starbucks and connected to their WIFI, it would pickup where it left off and continue downloading. If he came over to visit you and you connected him to your WIFI, well his computer would still be downloading.

Very good point.

The 'always downloading' is a setting, and can be changed, but he may have used a version where the default is 'always downloading' and just never changed it.

@myredracer, I find it incredibly creepy that your phone company is monitoring the name of every file you view on your computer.

I am not sure if this applies, but normally Bittorrent clients are always downloading. Most people do not know that when you close the client it just hides it, but it continues to download/upload in the background. So if the Nephew was downloading these shows at home and went to Starbucks and connected to their WIFI, it would pickup where it left off and continue downloading. If he came over to visit you and you connected him to your WIFI, well his computer would still be downloading.

I have been trying to relay what DW told about what happened as she was the one that saw the messages and did the talking with our phone company.

She was getting email messages from them stating that there were illegal downloads, not any screen images/messages. Obviously wasn't me since I would never watch a Spongebob movie or the Simpsons, not only that, the downloads were around midnight (we old folks go to bed long before that...).

The plot thickens:

One of my nephews happened to be over yesterday evening and I jokingly asked if he might have downloaded the Simpsons and Spongebob. Sure enough, he did. The weird thing is that he lives in a condo about 20 miles away. My SIL moved into a suite in our house a few weeks ago after owning a townhouse that her 2 kids used to hang out in at a lot. My SIL doesn't have a land line and uses a cell phone for business and work. Further, my nephew's condo is technically owned by my SIL ('nuther story) and he uses Skype as a phone. I am guessing that somehow my SIL's IP address tagged along with her to our house?

DW haven't had a chance to talk more about this or look into it as we are just heading out to go camping today. DW is concerned because she is worried the cops could come knocking on our door someday. Who knows what else my nephew could be downloading too. On the upside, at least it looks like we weren't hacked into.