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Old 08-02-2005, 06:24 PM
Cynic
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Default Re: Hijacking a broadband connection

On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 11:52:13 -0400, Mike Ross <mike@corestore.org>
wrote:

>>>Of course there is really no way to find the owner of a wireless network.

>>
>>debatable, often you could find the IP address and hence get to the
>>owner via ISP etc.

>
>Yes, *if* the ISP is able to map an IP address to a specific customer.
>Not all do this.


And *if* the user can discover the Internet IP address that the
wireless network is using - which is not at all straightforward. (It
is not usually the IP address allocated to the wireless client).

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