Open letter to the internet stealer
To the person/people in my building who have used my entire month's worth of peak internet usage in 5 days,
I hope you have enjoyed downloading whatever it is you have downloaded, and I hope you've had a good old laugh at being able to crack the password to my wireless connection. Contrary to what my provider tells me, the security on the password wasn't that high was it? Good luck with my next choice - random numbers.
You are rubbish. Get off your feral butt and go and get a job so you can afford your own internet connection, and will stop using mine.
You live in my building. I've probably seen you. No one who lives there is what you'd call super wealthy... so don't presume I have the means to support your internet habit.
Thanks for slowing my internet speed to that of a snail until the 3rd of November, now when it takes half an hour to load a page I'll think of you, and hope you are rotting.
Sincerely,
Tik
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There are some things you just dont do, steal another person partner, hit a girl (spanking is different), wear too much denim and you never ever ever mess with another persons download limit...
Theres a special level of hell reserved for people like that...
Make sure you use at least WPA, preferably WPA2, but certainly not WEP. If you use WEP, it doesn't matter what your password is, it is easily hackable by monitoring your encrypted traffic.
Did you rename your AccessPoint or is it its default name?
The default name tells a hacker easily what brand it is, and he might look up vulnerabilities for that brand. Also disable broadcasting your AP name.
Did you reset the default password of your modem and/or wireless router? As the default username/password is known for all modem/routers.
Did your ISP set up your modem/router remotely? That means a hacker might also have remote access. Better turn of remote access all together (but then your ISP will have more difficulty helping you remotely).
Do you filter on MAC addresses, so only your devices have access?
All these measure are rather an annoyance to a skilled hacker, it doesn't make it that much more secure, but it does keep the script kiddies away. But WPA2 should help.
My 2c
I've renamed the AccessPoint so it no longer is the brand of my modem, changed the password to the router and turned off the remote access. I dont really know how to filter on MAC addresses, but I figure the other things I've put in place should stop them hacking right? *looks around nervously* right?
What BASTARDS!