Hi all,

I want to find a way to use Ad Hoc wireless networking
to share files, but I would like to do the following:

1. set my MAC address

2. find a program that can scan all channels and
all commonplace SSIDs (linksys, apple(?), etc)
and tell me what computers exists and are responding
as offering files

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks.

(E-Mail Removed) writes:

>Hi all,

>I want to find a way to use Ad Hoc wireless networking
>to share files, but I would like to do the following:

>1. set my MAC address

>2. find a program that can scan all channels and
> all commonplace SSIDs (linksys, apple(?), etc)
> and tell me what computers exists and are responding
> as offering files

>Is there a way to do this?

this is probably illegal in many states. Just because the wireless link is
open does not mean that you have the right to copy files from it. While
scanning the network is almost certainly OK, actually going in, especially
with a MAC address which is not what originally came with the card, would
be criminal activity.

On 28 May 2005 10:27:17 -0700, (E-Mail Removed) wrote:

>Hi all,
>
>I want to find a way to use Ad Hoc wireless networking
>to share files, but I would like to do the following:
>
>1. set my MAC address
>
>2. find a program that can scan all channels and
> all commonplace SSIDs (linksys, apple(?), etc)
> and tell me what computers exists and are responding
> as offering files
>
>Is there a way to do this?



if yer asking, u aren't a very good hacker.

What police state do you come from? Last I checked
in the USA two people willfully sharing is not
hacking, except to a minority who are best described
as paranoid rightwing fruitcakes, or coke-sniffing
RIAA lawyer-lackeys.

Why would two people knowingly sharing files with
one another be illegal, unless they're sharing something
they shouldn't?

As for setting the MAC address being criminal,
that's entirely ludicrous.

What on earth are you talking about, you paranoid fool?

Everyone knows that on any Macintosh you can set
the computer to make certain files available to
other people who are nearby, by enabling the
computer-to-computer or Ad Hoc network. On the PC
side this is called File Sharing, and on each computer
this is 100% legal.

So you can take off your tinfoil hat now.

(E-Mail Removed) writes:

>Why would two people knowingly sharing files with
>one another be illegal, unless they're sharing something
>they shouldn't?

>As for setting the MAC address being criminal,
>that's entirely ludicrous.

Setting the mac address is not criminal. Setting the mac address in order
to enter a computer system to which you are not authorized may be.
If the two people knowingly share files, that is fine. If one of them has
no knowledge of the sharing it is not fine. All indication in the original
post were that you were engaged in unauthorized activity. Otherwise why not
just ask, and why set your MAC address to something other than what it is.

In comp.os.linux.networking Unruh <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)>:
> (E-Mail Removed) writes:

>>Why would two people knowingly sharing files with
>>one another be illegal, unless they're sharing something
>>they shouldn't?

>>As for setting the MAC address being criminal,
>>that's entirely ludicrous.

> Setting the mac address is not criminal. Setting the mac address in order
> to enter a computer system to which you are not authorized may be.
> If the two people knowingly share files, that is fine. If one of them has
> no knowledge of the sharing it is not fine. All indication in the original
> post were that you were engaged in unauthorized activity. Otherwise why not
> just ask, and why set your MAC address to something other than what it is.

Exactly, understood from the OP asking how can some unknown WLAN
be scanned/connected to, gathering SSID and alike, setting his
own MAC so he can connect to one or another file share opened on
the systems, knowingly by the system owner or not? Might be
illegal depending on local laws, not to forget about the actual
files shared, likely containing mostly copyrighted material not
allowed for sharing at all?

No matter how one thinks about these laws, they are in place and
it might not be a really good idea asking for help to break them
in a public newsgroup...

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> Exactly, understood from the OP asking how can some unknown WLAN
> be scanned/connected to, gathering SSID and alike, setting his
> own MAC so he can connect to one or another file share opened on
> the systems,

I can't help it if you didn't understand me. I was clearly
asking about how to make efficient use of Ad Hoc, whose
only accepted common purpose is file sharing. Only a paranoid
person would think of it as a way of hacking.