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Mon, 16 Feb 2009 12:35:25 +0000

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By: JT, Arklow

JT, Arklow — Sun, 15 Feb 2009 18:59:25 +0000

Hehe, I’ve been stealing internet from my high-density housing (slums) neighbours for years, As of writing, I’m getting 9 signals, 8 of which are easily accesible. I think I’ll download every scrubs episode tonight. XD

By: Cage

Cage — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:09:13 +0000

I didn’t read all the comments, so I hope I’m not repeating anyone else, but I plan to make sure myself and anyone else I know ends any contract they have with eircom and changes to a new provider. Ireland is usually the last place for interesting/controversial stuff of a tech nature to happen, cause we’re usually a bit behind, but this is a disgrace!

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Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:07:25 +0000

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By: James

James — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 13:27:30 +0000

I’m from Ireland and my ISP is eircom. Could somebody please tell me a way to bypass Eircom’s restrictions so that I can download torrents undetected.
Would Kommute(http://kommute.sourceforge.net/) work?
I really dont want to have to pay for a VPN service or similiar. If I wanted to pay for torrents I would just buy the music in the first place.
Thanks for your help.

By: Ron

Ron — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:32:27 +0000

Eircom is the only ISP in the world to totally pull down their pants and assume the position for the music industry.

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makin257 - Eircom Customers Wide Open to Erroneous Disconnection — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 08:19:13 +0000

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By: Funky Monkey

Funky Monkey — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 05:37:36 +0000

here is the link to the page that can crack your wep key easy huh?

http://s4dd.yore.ma/eircom/

By: wtf

wtf — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:40:59 +0000

@19 again noob alert, if you actually read what i said, “Your talking crap about WPA2, aslong as you have a strong passphrase” and, okay some WEP’s take senconds others can take like 10 mins, does it really matter in that sort of time scale?

By: yeah

yeah — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:47:05 +0000

ahaha yeah that noob has been smokin too much hashish..

but hey i dont mind, it only makes it more of a surprise when i break into there network and STEAL ALL THERE INTERNETS!

By: Tom Allen

Tom Allen — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:46:23 +0000

Even if they change it, people will already have the wep key. Wep is so easy to crack, I can do it in a few mins. WPA is crackable too. Ethernet is secure, use that. Or WPA2

By: some ghoul

some ghoul — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:04:38 +0000

you dont even need an app to get into the eircom routers. just go here and enter the ssid

http://s4dd.yore.ma/eircom/

By: whats your favourite hobby sport

whats your favourite hobby sport — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:54:46 +0000

@18 noob alert. Obviously you dont frequent enough hotels now do you. tosspot. Nothing is impossible it is only a matter of how much time it takes. a long time or a short time.
And hey noob, wep can be cracked in seconds not minutes and if your beloved passphrase bound to your wpa2 is straight from the dictionary, then, houston we have a problem.

By: wtf

wtf — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:04:52 +0000

@16

Your talking crap about WPA2, aslong as you have a strong passphrase its impossible to hack, the closest it been to is cracking the upstream chyper using GPU computing and a specialist peice of kit. Even with this you cant use the connection. It uses AES packet encryption. Also how can you tell a computer to foward traffic to you (pretend router) if you dont know what its sending and dont have the encryption keys. What a suprise you are talking out of your arse. WEP by no means is still easily hackable in minutes 64 bit, 128bit take your pick….

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By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:21:54 +0000

Thanks Torrentfreak for bringing this to peoples attention.
I have attempted to do the same.
http://isohunt.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=566049#566049

By: whats your favourite hobby sport

whats your favourite hobby sport — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 11:14:06 +0000

2 things spring to mind here.
1. If the customer is always right and you tell the ISP ” no it wasn’t me ” is the ISP not responsible to prove beyond reasonable doubt that it was indeed you. i.e. be allowed access to the software being used to track you. It surely must be the only way to tell if it is indeed an accurate accusation or not.
2. When someone is accused, why dont they bring their router and pc to the ISP / police / media monkeys and say search my stuff.

And lastly the maker of the wireless router should be in court, because they supplied an insecure device to you in the first place. So don’t be fooled into thinking that wpa2 will save your bacon cause that only takes a little longer to crack with a few dictionaries at hand or becoming the router itself and routing all traffic through the attackers box.
Peeps will say, yeah thats it get someone else into trouble to get what you want!!!! Yeah then take all your gear to the local copshop and say prove it was me and not someone else and no officer my antivirus / rootkit software did not detect the trojan you found on my system:P
As cracking wireless becomes a 1 click solution then abuse is bound to happen and the games will commence.

By: Emeralddragon

Emeralddragon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 09:44:57 +0000

Most downloading is done either at college or in student accommodation both of which have communal broadband. Id like to see how that one works out for eircom…..

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:03:41 +0000

Do any music industry management people have eircom connections? I would like to find out their IP addresses!

By: Emeralddragon

Emeralddragon — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:41:05 +0000

If they change their SSID Its still possible to figure out the wep using the routers mac address.

By: xSaimex

xSaimex — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 22:59:41 +0000

haha indeed.

By: Sharky, Shannon

Sharky, Shannon — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:37:07 +0000

thanks for spreading the word TF, as always good article.
i personally will disconnect abut 12 customers. :)

hey lonewolf, its jolly ;)

By: megaP2P

megaP2P — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:33:56 +0000

If computer is infected with a trojan, new password will be sent to hacker, therefore this "wireless protection" can be used unlimited times.

By: lonewolf

lonewolf — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:23:17 +0000

Actually, if the Irish folks want to follow along with some of the ideas of forcing a mass disconnect, this is an opportunity – hack those routers, get into those networks, download the latest hollywood movie, and upload for a while.

If it works like we hoped, thousands upon thousands of people get disconnected, and Eircom realises very quickly how flawed their plan is. They are forced to change their terms to be at least more feasible, and the music industry gets to suck their own, because their model for piracy-control doesn't work. And at that point, we could use that failure to reflect similar possible failures of similar works of legislation across the world.

Don't let this opportunity pass you by Ireland. Show them what happens when you bend to the corporations instead of working for your customers.

By: adol

adol — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 21:08:35 +0000

http://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-tricks-ant…
sucks to be anyone that has the IP adress that pirate bay posts as a fake peer…

By: EZEE

EZEE — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:54:34 +0000

Not possible to do so for a whole quarter million customers, would be nice if they did though, should help with employment… they would have to hire hundreds if not more techs, and whatever they come up with… will be broken again.

Wrote a related article if you are interested:
http://ezee.se/articles-blog/2009/02/02/eircom-a-…

By: ddd

ddd — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 20:32:16 +0000

E then sends a support technician to change encryption and keys, and the person feels more secure, since they didn't lie. And if they did – well, they no longer got an excuse next time.

By: MUHAHA

MUHAHA — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:31:47 +0000

can i get a list of the IPS of that HOST time for a mass disconnect…..

By: EZEE

EZEE — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:11:19 +0000

All in all a very very useless system.

The ISP (abbreviated to E) disconnects the person, person claims he/she got hacked (even if they didnt) E has no choice but to believe the person because E has supplied crappy routers to their clients, E gives back the account to the person because it does not want to disconnect a person wrongly (plus E is only too happy to believe the person so that E does not lose persons subscription fees).

All in all, music industry is again biting its own tail and nothing changes, which is cool because f**k the music industry.

http://www.eZee.se

By: Joe

Joe — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:21:58 +0000

WEP can be cracked very easily **regardless of the key used** as it is not due to a typical brute-force password attack but instead through packet analysis. The only way to address WEP’s vulnerability is to not use WEP at all, which would mean upgrading the router’s firmware, if possible, or more likely, getting another router, that supports WPA/WPA2 encryption.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 16:02:27 +0000

everyone should just switch isp if possible that would teach them a good lesson imo

By: xippie

xippie — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:42:15 +0000

So if you have an Eircom router, you never can be accused of file sharing ;)