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Is this illegal?

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  • fuzzball172
    fuzzball172 Posts: 347 Forumite
    That could be a cracking way to harvest identities... Set up an unsecured wifi in a busy area and then sit a PC with a packet sniffer on it to record all the network traffic. I doubt you would get much useful banking data as its pretty well secured, but there would be plenty of other useful data up for grabs. Sit back and wait to see what you can harvest... Ok I'm not advocating this at all, but its a very easy setup to implement and I bet I'm not the first person to ever think it up...

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  • jackieb
    jackieb Posts: 27,605 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    grahawk wrote: »
    Is it a BT Openzone or BTFON connection - this are supposed to unsecured but you can only use them if your a BT Broadband customer or if you pay to use them.

    We're signed up to this. Anyone else who wants to use our bandwidth has to be signed up to it too.
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