Why in the world anyone would download anything on a public bittorrent or peer to peer network is absolutely beyond me. I think it would be quicker and easier to just mail the few thousand dollars the RIAA and MPAA have been settling with people out of court directly. Skip all the pomp and circumstance and just skip directly to the end result of being an irresponsible thieving idiot on the internet.
Someone is using Naperville’s free WiFi right now for BitTorrent, the Internet’s most popular piracy tool. The Pirate Bay and Demonoid, shown in the next few screenshots are the most popular torrent sites on the internet. Behold, city sponsored movie, music, or software piracy-
…or maybe more depending on the range of your laptop’s antenna.
For this example, I’m using my iPhone again to view the internet, and my Mac Mini running Wireshark to intercept and parse the data. First things first, we verify we’re connected to MetroFi-Free, Naperville’s new free 802.11b network:
After that, we’ll navigate to any web site that has a login form which isn’t encrypted with SSL. My own blog works great for this example, but really any web site which has a URL that doesn’t start with https:// is vulnerable, along with pretty much all internet applications (more on that later).
Assuming you’re using a real computer which runs Mac OS X-
sudo chmod 777 /dev/bpf*
This enables promiscuous access to Ethernet devices.
ifconfig -a
to figure out if your wireless card is on en0 or en1. (Most Macs should use en1)
Naperville’s free municipal WiFi went live in the downtown area over the weekend.
Totally unencrypted.
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Citsuca
Timmy Curran |
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Town Feeling
James William Hindle |
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Veneer
José González |
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Hello Starling
Josh Ritter |
