On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Jimmy Bradley wrote: > I live in an apartment complex, and I have a wireless network > that most of the time, I run encrypted. For some reason, in order for my > Linux machines to see my one remaining windows machine, I have to turn > off the encryption. Not long after I turn the encryption off, there is > some one who lives near me, whose machine gets on my network. > Now,get this, apparently the machine is setup to share the whole > hard drive,because I can see all the folders on the hard drive. By the > way, it's an 80gig hard drive. I have written and saved text files to > the machine's desktop, asking the person to stay off my network, but > they continue to get on my network. The last text message I saved to the > person's desktop was a message saying that they have ignored all my > warnings, so they leave me no choice but to fill up their hard drive. > So far, I have filled their hard drive about halfway up, and they still > get on my network. I haven't saved any malicious files to their machine. > It's mostly been Linux distro iso's and video(no porn)and audio files > that I know they won't like. Just nice big files. > This person has to be clueless as to what is going on. You'd > think they would've noticed something by now. > My question is, does anyone have any other ideas as to handle > this problem? I mean, I don't want to fill this person's hard drive up, > but if I have to, I will. surely you can configure your WAP to prevent this. most WAPs will allow you to limit the number of IP addresses given out, or let you filter on the MAC address. it's not hard. rday p.s. you're leaving yourself open to serious repercussions if you continue to do what you're doing. in the first place, the other party could potentially sue you for malicious mischief or something like that if you fill up their HD to the point where their system stops working. they could conceivably charge you with hacking, and the fact that they were using *your* WAP might not be a defense for you. second, if *their* machine gets infected with a virus and begins to disseminate spam, your ISP might cancel *your* access. check your contract -- a lot of ISPs have a clause that states that *you* are responsible for securing your systems and if you get infected and become a source of spam, they have every right to cancel your service. the fact that that spam is coming from elsewhere doesn't matter -- it's coming out of *your* account through *your* WAP, and that's all that matters. and, finally, if i was the other party and was feeling particularly malicious and wanted to get even, i might download illegal porn and put it on my own computer, then report it with your own admission that you've been storing content on that machine and claim that it came from *you*. and life would get ugly for you in a hurry. bottom line: you're wasting your time trying to play nice. figure out how to secure your systems properly. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA Home page: http://crashcourse.ca Fedora Cookbook: http://crashcourse.ca/wiki/index.php/Fedora_Cookbook ========================================================================
