If i access someone else's wireless online hot spot, can they track me back to where i am and what my online activities are? If i log into my e mail, will they know the password and such?
2006-10-05 20:21:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Security
of course they can. They can check their router log and see exactly what website and what server you have connected to.
If you log into your email address and your email account login process don't use any encryption, they can capture the communication between you and your email server and get the password and such (since likely in plain text).
2006-10-05 20:24:11 · answer #1 · answered by bk78451 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If by "They" you mean everyone within a 5 mile radius, yes, "They" can.
How to protect yourself:
1) Only use hotspots that have some sort of baseline encryption
2) Don't use hotspots in unknown areas. These could be 'ad-hoc' networks pretending to be the real deal and capturing your traffic.
3) Run encrypted versions of your software. Almost all mail clients now support SSL for both sending and receiving of mail via POP/IMAP or Exchange. The server needs to allow this as well. If it doesn't, and you are a frequent traveler, consider changing email providers or contact your SA.
4) Don't do any web browsing that may be specific to you. If you need to do this sort of thing, find an anonymous SSL based proxy service. You then have an encrypted tunnel to an SSL proxy from the company you choose to trust and your clear-text data rolls out from them.
2006-10-05 21:42:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not really viable to know your password. I've done some packet sniffing myself for auditing purposes -- Yahoo uses something like an MD4 encryption algorithm. Well, they did.. now I think everything is done even more securely over https.
Although, your AIM conversations are not encrypted.. website locations aren't encrypted .. so you could be easily tracked that way.
To brute force it is time consuming.. every letter added into your password ,I think, increases the time exponentially.
But, with the router log, they can see where you've been visiting.
As for your exact physical location -- I've only seen that done with an pc to pc connection.
2006-10-05 20:31:10 · answer #3 · answered by bahamutxd 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it depends, if the "hotspot" is that of a large company or any company school or whatever they will most likley have an administrator that does this kind of work and reconizes forgin computers on the network, however if it is a home wireless network and the reason that you are connecting is not because it is a hotspot but a un encripted wireless network then the chances are slim, the way i look at it is if they arnt smart enough to encript their network they will not be loging in to their router to check the clients.
2006-10-05 20:25:55 · answer #4 · answered by kazam 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I won't go into details, but, YES VERY EASY!!!
Everything going "through" their wireless connection can be tracked.
I even tried this test with my neighbors permission. We both have wireless. I could monitor his communication's and he could monitor mine. UNTIL we both LOCKED our systems and set up the proper security.
communication's = e-mails, passwords, websites visited, EVERYTHING!!!
2006-10-05 20:27:40 · answer #5 · answered by space_man_stitch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-16 03:07:31 · answer #6 · answered by melita 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's illegal to access someone else's wireless connection and you could get heavily fined. Before I locked my router, I could see who was using mine and I would have reported them had I not security locked it immediately.
2006-10-05 20:24:49 · answer #7 · answered by Carella 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would you even want to do something like this ? You wouldn't want them tracking you then stay off their " hot spot "
2006-10-05 20:28:34 · answer #8 · answered by frankfort_girlie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. They can track you.
2006-10-05 20:26:45 · answer #9 · answered by skoosh_me 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yep, it is possible. You should not be stealing someone elses bandwidth.
2006-10-05 20:23:57 · answer #10 · answered by Dr Dee 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋