Opening a wrongly addressed letter

AndyPix

50Twuncle wrote: »

Yes I have - a 12 digit alpha numeric number

And - being the long term IT professional, working "proper IT" , that you are ..


You will have already no doubt disabled WPS on the router.


And , with you also knowing that this is the ONLY way that wifi can be cracked (aside from brute force which is not going to happen) - are you not left worried that this guy must have broken into your house, found where you write down your passwords, stole nothing and then left :huh:

AndyPix

50Twuncle wrote: »

This was prior to me setting up a MAC based wireless network access rule !

And of course, your long IT history will also tell you that that is absolutely pointless because any one with an ounce of knowledge can spoof a mac address with one line of code

AndyPix

unholyangel wrote: »

WPS thats a 8 character code, because of the way its done, it can be cracked in less than a day. .

One of them is a check digit, so that down to 7 - and the unbelieveable thing is, that if you crack the first 5, the router will actually give you the rest !!!


So thats only 10,000 guesses that have to be made.


Recent developments have found a further weakness which means 80% or routers can be cracked in less than a second using pixiwps

unholyangel

AndyPix wrote: »

One of them is a check digit, so that down to 7 - and the unbelieveable thing is, that if you crack the first 5, the router will actually give you the rest !!!


So thats only 10,000 guesses that have to be made.


Recent developments have found a further weakness which means 80% or routers can be cracked in less than a second using pixiwps

I was having a facepalm moment the other day at virgins password policy - they specify (if I can remember the exact requirements) that your password needs to be 8-10 letters, start with a letter, letters & numbers only and you can't use the same character twice in a row.

With rules as specific and limiting as that, they may as well just make people use "virgin123" as their password.

50Twuncle

AndyPix wrote: »

And of course, your long IT history will also tell you that that is absolutely pointless because any one with an ounce of knowledge can spoof a mac address with one line of code

Well - my earstwhile neighbour clearly doesn't have an ounce of knowledge- since he was connecting to my router using a device called his own name ...

TBagpuss

pineapple wrote: »

Yes and no
Section 84 of The Postal Services Act 2000 states that it is illegal to open someone's post, or delay it reaching the owner.
The Act says: "A person commits an offence if, intending to act to a person's detriment and without reasonable excuse, he opens a postal packet which he knows or reasonably suspects has been incorrectly delivered to him."

But if you open it in error and not with malicious intent it should be fine.

If you open it intentionally but not with malicious intent you are fine.
Opening in order to contact the sender and let them know the person they are writing to is not at that address or that they have made an error on the address is perfectly fine.
Opening it to see whether there is any indication of whether it is junk mail or something the recipient might be interested to get is fine.

OP, either put it through your neighbours letter box, or open one to see if the senders senders contact details are there, and then phone them and tell them that this person doesn't, and hasn't, live at your address.

greyteam1959

I printed up some 'Return To Sender Delete From Mailing List Please' labels.
I cross out the address on the envelope & stick one of my labels on & put it back in the post box.
I have reduced my junk mail by about 99%.

Autumnella

Just open it and phone the companies and give the correct address. A lot of people just write on 'return to sender/not at this address' to avoid paying bills/debts so companies just ignore it. Where I work we even get this written on letters addressed to owner/occupier.

Lip_Stick

I had a problem of someone using my address to try escape their liabilities it seems. First I had a bill from People for Places, then a debt collection letter which I think was related to the non-payment of rent, and finally a council tax summons. They were all to do with a property over 100 miles away, so no idea why my address got picked by the culprit, guess it was just random.

Anyway, I phoned each place, explained the circumstances and that I'd lived in my property for over 10 years. They asked me to send any letters back as 'Not known at this address' but I think my phone calls helped more. I asked the council how they got my address, the woman went to check and returned saying she could not tell me due to data protection (lol). I replied that I don't want to know anything about the person, just if the council had been given my address or if they had gained it by other methods. She went away again, then returned telling me it had been given to them.

This all happened about 4 months ago, over a period of 6 weeks, and I haven't had any letters since. I suggest opening the letters to see what is going on and making sure bailiffs aren't going to be turning up at your door. Phoning up to deal with the companies is your best bet too.

MothballsWallet

unholyangel wrote: »

I was having a facepalm moment the other day at virgins password policy - they specify (if I can remember the exact requirements) that your password needs to be 8-10 letters, start with a letter, letters & numbers only and you can't use the same character twice in a row.

With rules as specific and limiting as that, they may as well just make people use "virgin123" as their password.

You could always try "bransonfool" - since he gave Elon Musk US$125 million for the Hyperloop pie in the sky technology that isn't going to work like Musk says.