Is this illegal?

[Enigma]

LOL

When that happens with us, unless they directly ask us like you did, we're not supposed to mention it, but instead send an email to our audit team. When they get the email, they perform said audit, then if necissary perform an equipment lock on it.

Last week I got a call from a lady who sounded awfully familiar (we have 13 million customers, so when to get a repeat call is really odd), because she didn't know any information to bring up her account, and I had to wait till she finished her drive home and got a bill to give me the acct number.

Well anyway, I figured out she had an equip lock and I was the one who sent the email. XD

[Hobgoblin]

When I was in college, our chapel's copper wiring was outstanding at picking up a local radio station. It was awesome for those really boring sermons or speaches that we had to go to. Just sit back, relax, listen to the tunes and then fall asleep.

[DarthRetard]

It's that Damned JERRY BEAVER!!!

[DGoddessChardonnay]

So... can anyone explain how come I suddenly started hearing the radio conversation between two snowplow operators through my computer headphones the other night? I wasn't online, and it was really freaky! LOL

I wish I could explain that one, but I'm still waiting for explanation on why I could hear our local R&B station with my boombox OFF back when I was in high school.

I could hear it through my headphones . . . . not sure if it had something to do w/the proximity of their tower (which was about a mile from our house that we lived in back in the 80's.)

But now, we're closer to the same radio station, but I'm not hearing the station on my current boom box w/it turned off.

Weird.

[MadMike]

Earphones and such stuff tend to occassionally pick up radio transmissions. It'll take some special circumstances, but it's not unheard of.

A couple years ago, my computer speakers started to faintly transmit a radio station. At first, I thought my son left his radio on upstairs, but he checked and said it was off. Took us awhile to figure out where it was coming from.

It did that for a few days, and then stopped just as suddenly and mysteriously as it had started.

[RogueOne]

my dad was talking to one of our neighbors on the phone at the time. The computer connected, and I was able to listen in (without speakers...)

The sound was coming from the computer's internal system speaker.

[MMATM]

That's similar to one incident (back in the dialup days) when I at the ripe old age of about 10 was trying to get online by guessing my parents' password (which was, incidentally, "password" and of course being 10 also the first thing i tried). I didn't really understand that the computer and phone ran on the same line, and my dad was talking to one of our neighbors on the phone at the time. The computer connected, and I was able to listen in (without speakers...) but not take part in (also no mike) my dad's conversation to our neighbor. He was going to have me run over to the neighbor's house with some Sally Foster stuff (wrapping paper) or something like that. My brother and his friends were all that we could hear the phone conversation but as soon as I went upstairs (computer was in the basement) to ask my dad what he needed me to bring next door, they pounced on it and I got in trouble for trying to take it back when I got home. To this day the incident has freaked me out a bit.

And no, we never actually got past the "DIALING.... CONNECTING...." screen. My brother and friends decided to log off and play games instead.

Sorry that was a bit long.

[tollbaby]

scared the crap right out of me when it happened, cause I was just sitting there minding my own business, listening to some tunes... and all of a sudden, I have these two French guys babbling in my ear about their shift change and the fact that one of them had a jam in his sand dispenser LOL

[trunks2k]

So... can anyone explain how come I suddenly started hearing the radio conversation between two snowplow operators through my computer headphones the other night? I wasn't online, and it was really freaky! LOL

Earphones and such stuff tend to occassionally pick up radio transmissions. It'll take some special circumstances, but it's not unheard of.

[pbmods]

So... can anyone explain how come I suddenly started hearing the radio conversation between two snowplow operators through my computer headphones the other night? I wasn't online, and it was really freaky! LOL

Speculating here... maybe you had a long length of cable of some kind running parallel to your headphone cable. The long cable picked up the radio transmission and via magnetic field transferred the signal to your headphone cable.

Or maybe you should just have your fillings checked again.

[tollbaby]

So... can anyone explain how come I suddenly started hearing the radio conversation between two snowplow operators through my computer headphones the other night? I wasn't online, and it was really freaky! LOL

[DGoddessChardonnay]

I seem to be picking up several home networks within range when I have my laptop in the living room.

Two of them are secured, the other one isn't. All of them come in as very low or low signal.

Luckily since we switched back to DSL (as of yesterday afternoon) our home network is secured. The WEP is required to connect to the network (which was all I had to enter on the laptop and she was up and running.)

Yet when we had the cable ISP, the tech that did our install didn't secure our network.

Which is why I think I'd rather install stuff myself . . . I don't have to blame anyone else if something goes wrong.

[pbmods]

"Um, all I'm really wanting to know is, is this illegal?"

What's the point of asking, lady? No matter what answer you get, you'll keep doing it anyway.

[dougall]

You can fake Mac Addresses easily all you have to do is watch the traffic to get an allowed address then set your card to use it.

Here is a good link explaining it http://www.grc.com/SecurityNow.htm#11 Episode 11 You also get explanations of Wep and WPA encryption

[LostMyMind]

Bah, MAC address filtering is all you need. Most drive by hackers don't spend that kind of time on a blocked firewall. They'll just go down the street a little more.