[ale] heads up - warning - you could be sharing comcast wifi without knowing it

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

I sent the original post yesterday June 11 at 8:17 pm.

Ron


"Lightner, Jeff" <JLightner at water.com> wrote:

>I don’t see the original in this thread.
>
>Is Comcast putting wireless routers in homes and making them publically
>available?
>
>From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
>Pete Hardie
>Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 10:29 AM
>To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
>Subject: Re: [ale] heads up - warning - you could be sharing comcast
>wifi without knowing it
>
>I was pondering the possibility of the cable modem taking shortcuts or
>having bugs that would route the guest wifi into my home subnet
>erroneously.  If, as has been mentioned, the nets are fully separate
>until they hit the CMTS, then it's not an issue.
>
>Pete Hardie
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>Better Living Through Bitmaps
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>On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 10:24 AM, Derek Atkins
><warlord at mit.edu<mailto:warlord at mit.edu>> wrote:
>Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com<mailto:pete.hardie at gmail.com>>
>writes:
>
>> So if someone uses this free wifi access to hack one of my machines,
>is
>> Comcast liable?
>How would they do that?  Do you not have a firewall for your machines?
>The way I understand this is that the "public wifi" portion would be on
>a different network than your "personal" connection, so anyone on the
>public side would have the same access to your network as someone
>anywhere else on the Internet.
>
>-derek
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