wireless trap

[dlite922]

I want to create a blackhole wireless internet at my house so that neighbors can connect but it won't be connected to anything, just my own hacking sandbox and a modem.

I'm going to just leave it wide open, no encryption, call it 'linksys' and default IP

What's a good tool to log the computers that connect? to see who is stealing my internet?

or automatically give them a virus(even though it will be a shitty one that almost all anti-viruses will block)

do worms travel without any "trigger"?

I'm open for discussion on this, pour out your criticisms and thoughts, or helpful links

Thanks,



Dan

EDIT: My intention is not malicious. I do not want to cause any inconvenience to anybody. I'm partly just playing around with network security (my field of study) and partly want to reduce internet leeches in my neighborhood.

[sicarie]

Dan,

It's illegal to deliberately infect someone with a virus or malware, so I'm not going to touch that.

As for the 'blackhole' internet, are you looking to create more than one wireless LAN with the same router? If you have an extra wireless router, you can just hook that directly to your sandbox (and not to the internet), and do whatever testing you want to do there.

If you were going to connect it to the internet there are several entertaining things you can do as long is it's your connection - like point to a proxy that inverts all data coming into the computer (so web pages are mirrored correctly, just with everything backwards).

I'd recommend the first - leaving it connected to a sandbox with no internet because you are still liable for what they may do over your connection, especially if you deliberately left it unsecured.

Did that answer all your questions?

sicarie

::Update::
If you know people are connecting to it illegally, you can monitor the logs to find the MAC address and IP and do netsend messages, block their MAC, or sniff their traffic until they send something that shows who they are, and then go to their house and demand they stop.

[hsriat]

Hi Dan,

I believe if you want to do more than just playing around, you can actually hack all their web passwords (even the ones for https sites) by doing a sophisticated 'dan'-in-the-middle attack.

Regards

[RedSon]

Gentlemen,

There will be no further discussion about hacking, cracking, attacking, or snacking on anyone's computer.

However since you are legally allowed to administer your network however you see fit we can discuss how you can monitor traffic on your own router. This will be quite a project if you are interested in doing it properly. However if you just want a simple solution you can look up tools like Snort, Wireshark, Honeypots, and Kismet.

Keep in mind that this thread is walking a fine line between what you are allowed to do on your own hardware and network, versus what you are allowed to do on another person's computer or your ISPs network which you rent from them. Let's make sure we are on the right side of the line...