Open Wireless AP...find the owner?

[Bill Talley]

Just to be certain it wasn't mine, what was the SSID?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Matt G" <linux at bizniche.com>
To: <kclug at kclug.org>
Sent: Friday, July 11, 2003 11:48 PM
Subject: Open Wireless AP...find the owner?

> So, I got my new wireless network setup today, and the first thing I did
was
> enable wep, turn off broadcasting, and make sure it didn't accept ssid
> "any".  So, I'm fooling around with it, and it's working great.  I
installed
> netstumbler just to make sure I couldn't find my ap like that.   Mine
didn't
> show up, which is good, but I found 2 others.  One seems to be protected,
> but one of them is totally open.  I can get an ip and get online etc.
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> Is there any way to find out who they are??  I need to help this guy get
his
> network buttoned down.  I'm getting full strength signals.  There are no
> shared drives that I can find, and no shared printers (so I can't leave a
> file note, or print a note.)   Anyone know any tricks?
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> Matt
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