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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition
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The Book of Wireless, Second Edition

by John Ross
January 2008
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
336 pages
9h 43m
English
No Starch Press
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Unprotected Private Access Points

There's one more source of accessible Wi-Fi signals that we haven't discussed until now: the ones that leak from wireless home and office networks that your neighbors haven't bothered to protect. It can be awfully tempting to grab a connection to one of those networks, but it's both illegal and unethical, even if it is amazingly easy. In many downtown office districts, high-tech industrial parks, and residential neighborhoods, a casual visitor can often find and log in to half a dozen or more wireless networks within a few blocks.

If you can detect a network signal, you might be able to connect through that network to the Internet, but this is legally considered "theft of service"; network managers and law enforcement ...

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