16.05.2007 22:47

I mean an evil one, somebody who does something nasty on somebody elses computer. It happens just like this, by accident really, out of fun and curiosity... Imagine you are sitting around at your desk and you try to configure your new WLAN router. You don't really know its IP, so you try out the different possibilities that you find on the web. And luckily, you end up on a router configuration page. But there is something odd: the configuration software is not what you were expecting to see. Say it's this ugly pink panther color, where your router is not supposed to know about T Online at all. And the network is called differently than yours. Very strange, but you can change all the settings, keys everything. You go make yourself a coffee and then come back and check the list of available networks and oops there is your network of course and among others one matching the configuration tool you were just staring at. That one is open. Hm ... It's just so tempting.


No, no. I didn't do anything. I appreciate that people have unencrypted networks, but it would be a good idea to at least password protect your configuration interface. I just wished my neighbour was Wolfgang Schaeuble. Oh no, of course not really, who wants to live next to Mr. BIG BROTHER, but just for a today. Or I would have to improve my hacker skills a lot...