What is "airportthru"?
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From: Jolly Roger on 17 Jan 2010 09:52 In article <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>, > > Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png> > > > > > > Googling produced this snippet... > > > > > > "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung > > > printers." > > > > Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer. > > "Security: None" > > Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by > accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that? I think I would try to see if I could print random lame things to it every so often, until the owner got fed up enough to secure it. : ) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jolly Roger on 17 Jan 2010 09:52 In article <djstewart-D0A833.08314717012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, DanS <djstewart(a)TAKEOUTmac.com> wrote: > In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>, > > Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png> > > > > > > Googling produced this snippet... > > > > > > "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung > > > printers." > > > > Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer. > > You could have fun with that, sending phantom print outs to your > neighbor (particularly if it's one you don't like). They might think > they were getting messages from god, or from the great beyond! ;-) GMTA : ) -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Tom Stiller on 17 Jan 2010 10:13 In article <2010011710311616807-gsande(a)worldnetattnet>, Gordon Sande <g.sande(a)worldnet.att.net> wrote: > On 2010-01-17 09:30:49 -0400, J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> > said: > > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:25:42 -0500, Paul Sture wrote (in article > > <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>): > > > >> In article > >> <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > >> Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > >> > >>> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>, > >>> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote: > >>> > >>>>> <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu > >>>>> .png> > >>>> > >>>> Googling produced this snippet... > >>>> > >>>> "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all > >>>> Samsung printers." > >>> > >>> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer. > >> > >> "Security: None" > >> > >> Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to > >> that by accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that? > >> > >> > > > > Let's just say that under current British law you can get someone > > in a lot of trouble if you were to print certain images to their > > printer and then call the cops on them. For example, there's the > > gentleman who got two emails containing video clips and is being > > prosecuted for them. > > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/tiger_police/>. Britain is > > now officially a police state. > > > > As for blocking it, yeah, there's a way. Two, in fact: > > > > 1 connect the printer to an existing wireless net; it can only > > access one wireless net at a time, so it won't broadcast the > > default ad-hoc net. > > > > 2 turn the wireless service off. > > The blocking question was intended the other way around. How does the > OP prevent the accident of printing their financial net worth > statements (or whatever) on the neighbour's printer as the result of > a careless menu choice? The entry showed up as a wireless access point, not a printer. So the OP just has to not go out of her way to do something stupid and all will be fine. -- Tom Stiller PGP fingerprint = 5108 DDB2 9761 EDE5 E7E3 7BDA 71ED 6496 99C0 C7CF
From: Paul Sture on 17 Jan 2010 10:52 In article <jollyroger-149098.08521617012010(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > In article <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>, > Paul Sture <paul.nospam(a)sture.ch> wrote: > > > In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > > > In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>, > > > Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote: > > > > > > > > <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png> > > > > > > > > Googling produced this snippet... > > > > > > > > "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung > > > > printers." > > > > > > Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer. > > > > "Security: None" > > > > Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by > > accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that? > > I think I would try to see if I could print random lame things to it > every so often, until the owner got fed up enough to secure it. : ) I can remember revenge being extracted on Fax spammers back in the days when fax paper was expensive. -- Paul Sture
From: Paul Sture on 17 Jan 2010 10:58 In article <hiv3e912qka(a)news6.newsguy.com>, J.J. O'Shea <try.not.to(a)but.see.sig> wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:25:42 -0500, Paul Sture wrote > (in article <paul.nospam-2AAC16.13254217012010(a)pbook.sture.ch>): > > > In article <michelle-99777F.12473316012010(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > >> In article <160120101125319270%darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid>, > >> Darrell Greenwood <darrell.usenet7(a)telus.invalid> wrote: > >> > >>>> <http://members.cox.net/michelle10042002/pictures/airport%20menu.png> > >>> > >>> Googling produced this snippet... > >>> > >>> "Airportthru is the default Ad-Hoc network name or SSID for all Samsung > >>> printers." > >> > >> Hmm, it must be a neighbor's printer. > > > > "Security: None" > > > > Not a lot of fun if you were to print something confidential to that by > > accident. Is there a way of blocking stuff like that? > > > > > > Let's just say that under current British law you can get someone in a lot of > trouble if you were to print certain images to their printer and then call > the cops on them. For example, there's the gentleman who got two emails > containing video clips and is being prosecuted for them. > <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/01/06/tiger_police/>. Britain is now > officially a police state. Please don't get me started... > As for blocking it, yeah, there's a way. Two, in fact: > > 1 connect the printer to an existing wireless net; it can only access one > wireless net at a time, so it won't broadcast the default ad-hoc net. I was looking at it the other way around - inadvertently connecting to someone else's printer and sending your plans for world domination - oops - I meant financial printouts to a neighbour. > 2 turn the wireless service off. I'm hard wired here, but others aren't. -- Paul Sture
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