cyrnel

Backwards kittens.

One guy's version of a cute and harmless wifi honeypot.



Nothing amazing but I applaud him for putting into practice one of those things we often dream about then drop for lack of time.

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

Oh, what to use for the SSID? "FreeWifiandVisionTest"

Any stories of your own that didn't involve damage to person or property? My own would have to be printing shenanigans. I used to seriously screw with people in the office who (ab)used my lasers. Creating typos where they didn't exist (their/there/they're), random missing or double pages, mystery scaling or n-up. Heh. Almost made me sorry to get an office.

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Jinn

Haha -- that's awesome. I wonder, though.. if the neighbors are just using his connection for downloading. If they're just using some P2P client, they'd never notice their newly kittenized-upsidedown-blurred internet.

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Cynthetiq

wow.... that's pretty cool.

one year my neighbor sat on my connection for a bit. Every week I started blocking access to particular websites, like google.com, aol.com, nytimes.com. Then I started blocking email sending, could receive emails, but not send. Then as the Christmas shopping started, I blocked https access.

fun!!!

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PredeconInferno

There's a tale of a similar situation told on bash.org. This website, if you're unfamiliar is usually a collection of "one-liners" taken (at first) from IRC and from modern IM services like AIM or Yahoo or MSN Messenger. Frankly put, it's hilarious.

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Daniel_

I'm assuming that horse porn is not dirty pictures that horses like to look at....

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Mark23

Interesting, but of course in real life you would assume someone who is computer literate enough to realise they can place horse porn on someone's computer across a wireless network to be computer literate enough to password their wifi in the first place.

magictoy

At least now I have an excuse if my wife finds my horse porn collection.

"Oh, honey, I was putting it on our neighbor's computer."

Moskie

Not at all. Double click that flashy thing in your system tray (wireless network configuration), select a network, and click connect. Repeat until MySpace comes up.

I know at least couple people that aren't terribly computer savvy, yet that's how they get their internet access...

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