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Authored by: nyarlathotep on Jan 09, '04 11:15:58AM

Wow! Thank you! I had no idea that systems connected to an unregestered wireless access point could talk to one another even when the wireless access point is denying them acess to the outside.

Of course, there are two big problems with this hint, at least as presented:

1) Your not truely sharing your internet access this way, just your web access. You should really be using ssh and pppd or maybe SOCKS instead of creating a web proxy. That way you will get real internet access. You can also get real internet access by just using the old fashioned way of turnning on internet sharing and putting a cable betweeen your two computers. All the methods I describe have the advantage that they are "transiant" and do not require you to fix your appache server settins when done.

2) Under your system you can not provide a free ride to people who do not know you, i.e. they need to know about the web proxy settings. This is not really easily correctable, but I can make the following suggestion: If you have a specific person who you want to do internet sharing with, use Apple's way of doing it, i.e. just run a cable between your systems, but instead of just using internet sharing on your system (wireless->ethernet), also do internet sharing on their system (ehternet->wireless). That way other people who do not have free access will get free access without even knowing what they are doing.

As ffor this hint being somehow "wrong," please, what a load of %$#^%$#. Wireless access costs nothing to provide and when they charge for it they charge truely insane rates. If a Mac owning friend and I happen to be suffering long enough delays in the airport that we feel the need to have access at their insane rates, I'm damn sure going to share those unreasonable rates and if I have a cable I'm going open up their wireless network to everyone else who is delayed.. in fact I'll probably call the neww network "FREEFOOD" or something.

Don't even get me started on that T-mobile stupidity at Starbucks. Of coursee, I hated Starbucks any way (a few nasty practices regarding emploies), so the whole T-mobile thing is really wonderful, because if means tons of people will go to other coffee houses (since basically every other coffee house has free wireless).

Now if you want to find a "wrong" use for this hint, you should notice that you could also use this idea to hack into Starbucks customers computers without paying for access at Starbucks. :) It also might mean that MS-Blaster would spread from an infected windows computer to the other patrons without the infected user buying access (though I don't really know enough about MS-Blaster to say for sure).



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