{"id":718,"date":"2004-08-01T09:57:12","date_gmt":"2004-08-01T09:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/bologs\/vng\/bios-blogs-and-wireless\/"},"modified":"2004-08-01T09:57:12","modified_gmt":"2004-08-01T09:57:12","slug":"bios-blogs-and-wireless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fatsquirrel.org\/oldfartsalmanac\/bios-blogs-and-wireless\/","title":{"rendered":"Bios, blogs and wireless"},"content":{"rendered":"

The last time Tony came down, he left me a book called “Where did it all go right ?”. It’s essentially the autobiography of a guy called Andrew Collins from birth to age 19. I would never have chosen to give this a try without Tony’s recommendation, looking as it does, like some diabolical 1970s nostalgiafest. In fact, it is a diabolical 1970s nostalgiafest but one of the most enjoyable, funny, and insightful books I’ve read for a while. I’ll lend it to you. At the end of it I felt like I knew him intimately – odd when you consider I’d never heard of him a couple of weeks ago.
\nAnyway – yesterday I heard him presenting “the day the music died”<\/a> on Radio 2, and I got quite freaked by it. There was this presenter, whose voice I didn’t really feel I knew, but whose friends, family, school-friends, sexual partners, musical tastes, and favourite films were all familiar to me.
\nUnless he was lying of course.
\nIt made me feel a bit like a stalker or, at the very least, a voyeur.
\nAnd you’re reading my blog. Perve \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

So I found a couple of interesting blogs yesterday that also give me that slightly unnerving feeling. Chocolate and Vodka<\/a> is a blog by someone who, like me, doesn’t go out much, favouring prolific blogging, IRC and promoting the Welsh language (she’s not Welsh).
\nOblomovka<\/a> is Danny O’Brian’s blog, and spiffing it is too…if you like that sort of thing.<\/p>\n

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When we moved in here, I set up wireless and left it wide open to see if anyone would try and take advantage of it. To make it more interesting I stopped it doing SSID broadcasts so the only people who would find it would probably have to looking properly (ie using some sort of netstumbler software).
\nLast week, we noticed a few people sitting on the wooden bench at the top of our stairs, using laptops. Hmm. I checked the AP logs and sure enough, they were associated. So I set them a few tests. Changed the network name (easyhack@fatsquirrel.org). Took them two days, but they found it again. Next, MAC address ACL. Sadly they never managed to nobble that one. 14^^3RZ!
\nSo, I opened it up again, tcpdumped all of their traffic over 24 hours for later grepping, and then WEPped it up. They’re still trying, bless them, but I don’t hold out much hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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