Eircom Wireless Screw Up
I’ve been hearing about the Eircom broadband security problems for a few months but never thought it was so easy so actually hack into another person’s connection until today.
They really fucked up, although they have sent letters out to people, the vast majority wouldn’t have the first idea how to make any changes. Most people get the Netopia wireless router, plug it in and then leave it alone. This is fair enough, they shouldn’t have to change anything, it should be properly secured already or just have wireless disabled. It’s automatically got wireless enabled with a default key they put on it before sending it out.
So basically the security is generated in such a way that some people have made a program that reverses the wireless ID and gives you the key you need to access the network!
Was setting up wireless in a friends house the other day, it was from eircom but I changed the security settings on it. There was another eircom wireless device next door with the default settings. With the hacking website we could have got access to it in a few seconds but we wouldn’t want to do that to our neighbours would we?!