Picking Up Wi-Fi Is Like Picking Up A Prostitute [NSFW]
This fun video personifies the prowl for Wi-Fi. You could pay the password-pimp for a fast connection, but what about that loose hotspot? Jumping on free Wi-Fi is easy, but only while it lasts, and you gotta watch for viruses:
Two things the video misses:
1. Trying out a bunch of standard passwords before getting bored and moving on.
2. That asshole at every airport pulling the “Free Wi-Fi” ad-hoc network scam. You’ll get online, but they’ll swipe your passwords. Sort of like a pimp not making you pay, but filming and selling a video of it without you knowing.
By the way, am I the only one that thinks free Wi-Fi looks kinda like Juliette Lewis? Who woulda thunk it.
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@Nick2: For real! With her slow $%# connection, they'd be at it all night.
Chris, look it's Chris!
@RuBBa_cHiKiN: That was. At least he didn't connect...
@prochobo: No, some networks are just that dangerous and exploit flaws in the windows networking setup.
My proof is Defcon. Connect to a network there, and you're a target from the first second.
I think the WEP ho' was Catalina from My Name Is Earl.
silverdee
@jlarroulet: That's what you get for connecting with the first one that gives you access. Oh, that's right, you didn't know cause you haven't seen the video. My bad.
silverdee
@Farrell McGovern: Of course! Cause according to Apple there's only TWO trojans you really have to worry about.
silverdee
That dial-up granny at the end was fucking scary! o_O
I've grabbed onto a neighbors WiFi when my ISP was down for 2 days straight, if you only enter passwords and such on secure sites it's less risky. I didn't bog down their connection and was really a lifesaver because boredom set in pretty quick without it.
At home I only do wired networks, even with MAC filtering and such I don't trust it with all the ways I've heard there is to hack WEP.
DoctorSinister
Of course, if he was running Linux, or OS X, he wouldn't have to worry about viruses!
Farrell McGovern
@Nuke Dukem: The following is guaranteed BS:: I love the Mod action taken on this comment. I have the original since I left the tab open all day, but the DN switch up is excellent!
ReynaldoRiv
@Hollandhoodie: You've got mail.
Jake Bailey
Aww, I was hoping that he would trade some crack for some WEP. Pun intended.
Jake Bailey
oops, here:
[www.nmrc.org]
gitch
"free Public Wifi" isn't actually a scam, but it is an amusing configuration "virus" that gets passed around. See here [www.nmrc.org]
gitch
@Kakkoii: It's lame because it's funny. Conformist.
I never found Juliette Lewis to be attractive, but the girl in this vid was, and bore a remarkable resemblance to her.
First time for everything.
Funny thing is, I leeched of my neighbours wi-fi when i watched this. Whenever i want to download something big, i have to leave the laptop at a sweet-spot next to the wardrobe.
MarsalaCabelin
ANYBODY thinking MICKEY AND MALLORY hardcore CRAZY with just a hint of skank - JULIETTE LEWIS???
FREE WI FI LOOKS ANNNNNNDDDD SOUNDS like JULIETTE LEWIS DAYUMM I was thinking that before even reading the words.
BUT Yo That ish was funny hands down! Though i am slightly offended as a black man that the "PIMP" had to be OVERLY STREET!! WHY DAYUM
@jlarroulet: just checked, it's still working...
@Kaiser-Machead: well, you can't be too mad...
at least she...
...well...
...forget it.
I'm getting a "Video not found" message.... bummer
jlarroulet
@tinkertank: It's funny because it's lame.
Yeah I was thinkin the same about free wifi looking like Juliette Lewis, cept better looking and less skanky lol
VideoVampire
@Dr. Evil Genius: Damn. That SLUT!
Kaiser-Machead
@nukee:
I'm not sure that beating, hacking, or cracking a child was a visual they wanted to go for considering the rest of the theme...
SSRPaulO
man... college humor is f'ing lame-o... their stuff just ain't funny
tinkertank
chick was hot.
@DH405: Why Ban.
Im just saying how crazy ass some people are.
like in the case of that site, its so backwards assfaced stupid the things people invent when there looking for a conspiracy.
Nuke Dukem: The following is guaranteed BS:
@dgelwin: Holy ban-hammer batman!
@usafking: I never considered my mother-in-law to be a pimp. I'll see her in a whole different way now...
@usafking: Just remember all of you married people out there. Uncle Dusty is here to tell you, "It's cheaper to keep her!"
DustyButtâ„¢
@met2art: yeah... she wants your cache but wants you to erase your History. what nerve.
@Dr. Evil Genius: Not to mention looking at you with a wan face, because they only want you for your cache...
"Jumping on free Wi-Fi is easy, but only while it lasts, and you gotta watch for viruses"
WHAATT?! So you're telling me that users can get viruses by simply connecting to a network and nothing more? You're telling me that a user gets infected for some other reason other than it's their own damn fault? I'm sorry, but your computer doesn't get viruses by simply "sitting" there, 99.9% it's a stupid user, the other .1% could possibly be attributed to a badly patched system, and I mean BADLY patched.
Who the fuck comes up with this nonsense?
@Kaiser-Machead: not to mention the fact that too often, you get "access point cannot be located" even when you're standing RIGHT NEXT TO IT!
@met2art: aww man!! when he disconnects and gives your router back to you, surfing won't have that snug and secure fit like it used to.
then, you get depressed and go looking for some Tight VNC.
@DustyButtâ„¢: You should only be so fortunate that a chick with a trojan (not the good kind) would even tell you your system has been compromised...
@Dr. Evil Genius: Brute force hacking a backdoor on his Siemens broadband router?
Awwww, that was sweet. At the end she told him to get himself scanned. It was like she really cared. *sniff!*
DustyButtâ„¢
@Kaiser-Machead: ...you know where it's been unless a slick-ass hacker that lives next door comes over to download while you're at work...
I liked the world better when nobody password protected their home networks, and Linksys was a flashing blue light interwebs connection, free for all.
I so hit Napster hard. Those were the days.
If u think that video is F*&6ED up you should watch the one at this site
i mean what the hell is that all about its so stupid its insane, and yet its actually being made into a movie. what the hell has the world come to.
conspiracy theorist are running out of ideas
Nuke Dukem: The following is guaranteed BS:
@Kaiser-Machead: I made some stupid choices when I was younger, and now it feels like firewall when IP.
@Yuppers: I don't love any of you and FYI marriage is a form of prostitution. Think about it, somewhere down the line if one of the spouses doesn't fullfill money or sexual needs the marriage fails... prostitution at it's finest, just in the long term.
But luckily my wife will never read this.
*Shouts over the shoulder*
"Yes honey, I'll go take the trash out now"
usafking
@Kaiser-Machead: I can make it a lot simpler. It's all about what port you use.
@Yuppers: I don't love you: But it's a fun ID.
WEP? That's best represented by a little child, not a pimp.
nukee
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®:
@Yuppers: I love you:
Well... Free for me. Choosing your carrier well can lead to excellent service that only requires love.
@Kaiser-Machead: Maybe this explains why with the SSID of "IWatchYouWhileUSleep", I get many people trying to logon to my router.
find the ad-hoc asshole at the airport. get online. make the relevant searches. wait for the cops to show up and "question" said asshole. have a hearty laugh. get on the plane. read a good book.
@Jrsy Devil's Food Cake®: I love you too. And I agree (it is expensive).
That old lady at the end scared the crap out of me.
@Yuppers: I love you: Despite what you may think, it's never 'free'. It's just the difference between paying for it up front, versus paying on an installment plan.
The interest is a b*tch..
Yeah, I've always been sort of wary, patrolling the red light network, seeing examples like "Cumatrix" and "RanchoRelaxo" tempting me with their ample signal strength. My homely NETGEAR SOLID may not be the best signal strength or speed, but it's mine, and I know where it's been.
Kaiser-Machead
And that's why I got married. I get all the virus free wi-fi I want.