Internet Question

1)I can't do this because he is my friend and has stuck his neck out for me before.

2) I don't have any evidence that he is in fact tracking me

3) I never brought up the time I caught him tracking me when we shared the computer. I would have trouble bringing up this topics. Its such a harsh accusation to make.

Finally, i am not looking for a confrontation, just a way in which I can have SOME interenet privacy.

He would have to be fairly computer saavy, but yes he can know what websites you look at. there are packet sniffers that can look at all the packets going over a network, and seeing that he has regular access to the wifi, he can see all the packets you're sending. you can do this too, it has nothing to do with admin control. some of the packets may be encrypted, like when you submit a password for most sites, so he can't see passwords but at least the ip address of where they're going. this would take some time to do, but is very possible. i think someone would do this more than once only if they were pricks.

why are you so paranoid?

having admin control over the router allows for more advanced trickery, but if it's just a regular wifi router you get at best buy there's probably nothing to worry about.

everything you're worried about could be accomplished a lot more easily if he had direct access to your computer, which is much more realistic for a roommate.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, on your computer is private.

There could be hackers in China that know everything that you are up to. It was in the NYT a few months ago.

frozen north wrote:

Nothing, and I mean nothing, on your computer is private.

There could be hackers in China that know everything that you are up to. It was in the NYT a few months ago.

I am aware of this, and this is the reason why I'm responsible about the sites I visit. But I do have a facebook account and it would be out of my control if the person got my password off the wirless connection and browsed the site in my name.-i will take responsibility for the history I create, but having someone else create my facebook history thats a whole nother issue and what I'm trying to get at. This thread has nothing to do with mothers or porn so that joke is just a waste of time.

I dug up this thread b/c a have a related issue. Does router history, sniffing capabilities give the administrator accessing abilities. (ie can they literally view those web pages even if they are password protected-or do they just merely read the links of where you have been as it appeas in Temporary Internet files.

If it is the latter I could care less, but I don't want my private documents made accessible-someone fill me in.

Aren't some of the Linksys routers capable of having their firmware changed to allow the router go beyond what it was intended to do?

roberto r wrote:

He would have to be fairly computer saavy...

I think that is really the understatement of the thread. There might be one person out of one-thousand who have the wherewithal to do the type of snooping that you're suggesting. More importantly, if you genuinely distrust your friend that much, the entire issue transcends a simple IT-related question.

In reality, this is actually the type of question I would expect someone to ask if they were quietly leaching Internet access from an unsecure router. I would caution people to be extremely careful if they engage in that rather questionable activity.