I set up a wireless connection in my home about a year ago. When I first set it up, I didn’t really secure it in anyway and there were no other wireless connections in the area. But then someone else in the neighborhood set up a wireless system and I kept logging into it accidently. It was called ‘linksys’. Then I locked down my system using MAC addresses. Next, MSHOME popped up and I could log into either one of them without any problem so I got kind of freaked out and locked down my wireless and it is now considered “secure” by most standards. Of course I realize that any self respecting hacker could get into it but at least no one in the neighborhood can use it easily.
Since the Christmas holidays began, I now have access to MSHOME, LINKSYS, KIRBYS AND LATTA. And ocassionaly one pops up called WORKGROUP.
Now for your opinion please, I know that I can find these homes pretty easily, do you think it would be a neighborly thing for me to approach these people and point out that they need to set up some kind of security for these systems? Or do you think that I would be opening a can of worms by offering this info??