Khan
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I am looking for free or low cost ISP for a neighbor.
Can someone recommend one?
Thanks.
Can someone recommend one?
Thanks.
Setting the ethics aside for a moment, let's talk enforcement-- wouldn't that hypothetical neighbor's hypothetically open WAP have some means of detecting what you're doing?Get a wireless card and see if a neighbor has an open WAP.
Setting the ethics aside for a moment, let's talk enforcement-- wouldn't that hypothetical neighbor's hypothetically open WAP have some means of detecting what you're doing?
It'd take my old desktop just a couple of weeks to break your SSL/https transactions...
You want cheap, I'll give you what my father-in-law has been swearing by for seven years: Wal-Mart.
WMConnect.com, the unwanted stepchild of what used to be Compuserve, is now [-]experimented with[/-] run by AOL using Netscape:
Member Center - Terms of Service
It used to be $9.95/month but may have soared up to $14.95/month.
Then there's always $9.95/month JunoTurbo: Juno Internet Service- Value-priced Internet Service Provider - ISP - Free, low-cost and fast Internet Access
I gotta warn your neighbor, though, that this is what you get by being cheap.
Setting the ethics aside for a moment, let's talk enforcement-- wouldn't that hypothetical neighbor's hypothetically open WAP have some means of detecting what you're doing?
Setting both ethics and enforcement aside, let's talk [-]stupidity[/-] lack of knowledge. About a year ago I noticed my DSL connection began working slower than it had before, and would also disconnect at random times. I lived with it for a couple of months until my son, who works in the industry, visited. I mentioned the problem, he checked it, and said I'd been using my neighbor's unsecured wireless. Seems my own router had died, my computer automatically connected to my neighbor and, being further away, it had a weaker signal. He replaced the modem and I regained my old speed.
I mentioned it to my neighbor, and he didn't have a clue that I had been unintentionally using his router, nor did he particularly care. So I told him if his ever died, he could use mine to return the favor.
dsl extreme is around 12.95/mo if you can get it. I have Verizon dsl for 14.95/mo. But I suppose you mean cheaper than those.
You maybe should have told him to secure his router. And maybe you should secure yours too. A third party could interfere with either of you.
I think you'd be the first to do it.
Those of you who choose a password for your wireless network should make it different from the name of the network.You maybe should have told him to secure his router. And maybe you should secure yours too. A third party could interfere with either of you.
Not really. Electronically it's the same bit-flipping speed as any other dialup ISP. Turbo just caches its best guess of what you're going to click on next, or briefly pauses the advertising downloads while you're requesting something. Your lack of advertising and your access to bandwidth is directly proportional to the amount of money you're paying for it.Does Juno Turbo really speed things up 5x times over regular dial up? Downloads any faster?
So would the old retired IT Security guy. I'm waiting for an industry article claiming someone has done it, other than WEPI'd be pretty surprised to find out that an old retired marketing guy was the first.
The link does not suggest that https is insecure, it only suggests that a lot of servers are set up improperly.But it may not even be necessary to break the key. You might be able to buy it.
http://tech.propeller.com/story/2006/10/30/dan-kaminskys-ssl-hell/
Do note that most brute force keybreaks are only hard if you dont know who the two parties are having the conversation, and you dont have ready access to some of the material that they're passing within the encryption.