Quake3World

One that belongs to a PC that's tried to connect to my wireless network, and failed, thanks to 128 bit WEP.
What can I do with said MAC address?

Open your network, let them connect, sniff their traffic, let the rest follow naturally

Hmmm...Not sure if I want to go to any great lengths, but I would like to find out who they are.

You can't do much with a mac address exept block it. Normally the the ARP table of your wireless router should translate it into a IP address, but since u secured it correctely, it fails to attribute an IP address to that MAC address.

Anyway, tracing a mac address over a wireless network is as harder than tracing someon on a cellphone wich is actually easier because you can triangelate (sp?) to a certain area.

There is not a lot you can do solely with a MAC address.

I don't understand. Do you want to do bad things to this person/MAC Address/Computer? That's not a very nice thing to do. Not at all.

find everyone in your area, check the mac address of each computer untill you find it then smack fuck out of them

Truth

don't forget to check their network cards and access points too.

Doombrain wrote:find everyone in your area, check the mac address of each computer untill you find it then smack fuck out of them

This is a fucking outstanding idea.

Better not do it Nightshade because you're only proving their point that America is a violent, unsafe place to live!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Nonsense, this is clearly a cyberterrorist threat to my home network and as such I have every right to beat the unholy dogshit out of everyone in my neighborhood that might be harboring a computer.

Perhaps I'll use the .44 magnum that came in my box of Fruit Loops this morning to help in my suppression of pinko, Jihadi inter-terrorists.

i know you're not joking.

Nightshade wrote:
Perhaps I'll use the .44 magnum that came in my box of Fruit Loops this morning to help in my suppression of pinko, Jihadi inter-terrorists.

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You could turn on MAC address filtering on your router and block that address, even though I doubt they would get by a 128 bit encryption key. Sometimes a computer with wireless can just attempt to connect on it's own especially when the user sets it to connect to any available network so there is a chance that it's an innocent dumbass who doesn't have a clue.

If you have evil intentions then disconnect your broadband modem, disconnect all but one computer, and open up your network invite the PC in then poke around and see what you can find.

Most people do not have admin passwords, and most people open their computers up by using the guest account so it should be an easy task.

had to reinstall windows on my mates laptop the other day, was halfway through a windows update when i remembered that we don't have a wireless network.

:lol:

Are you just using WEP for security? That can be cracked in a few hours, I'd enable MAC filtering too.

Oh, and you can spoof MAC addresses, just by altering the registry, so you'd probably never find them.

PhoeniX wrote:Are you just using WEP for security? That can be cracked in a few hours, I'd enable MAC filtering too.

Yeah, I just read an article about that, and the cracking time is down to a matter of minutes now, using readily available open-source tools.

I'm going to start using WPA, but I'm not sure if my new wireless Xbox Live adapter supports it.

that could have easily been accidental

yes, they could of slipped on found network as they walked by.

I use my neighbors wireless at home when I can't be arsed to plug the network cable into my mac. I don't have wireless.