Taking Things Apart

Have you ever tried to take something apart to see how it works?

Maybe something was broken and you tried to fix it? Did you fix it in the end? How about you tried to make something better?

A lot of people on the web talk about these things, one of the most popular being Kipkay.

I have tried a lot of times to fiddle around with things, like lights and chargers and the like. Not all worked though.

I want to know, have you ever tried changing something around? And did it work?

The Joy Of Hacking Wireless

I was on my dad's laptop, which has Vista on it and has a quite wide range of wireless. I was on the laptop yestarday morning when I noticed a new wireless connection, unsecured. That is the same as saying please use me.

And I did. I surfed the internet a bit. It was quite fast even though the internet range was a bit low. But I wasn't going to stop there. I was up for a challenge, of trying to log in to the router. I opened up a map of the links. Good old Vista showed me everything, including the IP address of the router.


I went for it and typed the IP in my browser. Now the hard part - the thing needs a username and password. I thought that I could try the factory defaults, the normal user and pass that comes with the router. I went and searched on Google for the defaults of Linksys routers, and I found them. Feeling lucky, I typed them in and hit OK. I hit the jackpot, I was in.



Now from here, I could do anything. I was able to see his username and password for his ADSL connection. It seems he's using Wanadoo (which is now Orange). Now this is not a worry, but what is...



I could password encrypt his router and wireless connection. This would mean that only I could use his connection whenever I wanted. The only solution to this problem is to reset the router, but poor old Jordanians don't know that.

But then again, I'm a good guy and I won't do this. I wait until after Ramadan. >=)