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Why no password check to establish a connection?
Hi All.
WXP SP1 Pro. Using, what used to be called, BTOpenworld/broadband/ADSL. I don't use (as far as I know) any of the "dialer" or Yahoo specific software. I have only just recently noticed that when I go to Start Connect To BT I can click on OK without a password. Or with something that I know is NOT the correct password. And yet it will always connect. Surely there should be some password checking? There appears to be password checking to get to email but that it is not necessary to be able to connect to the Internet and browse??? Thanks for any help Steve |
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Sorry. Wrong Board. Creeps away...
Steve "Steve" steve@. wrote in message ... Hi All. WXP SP1 Pro. Using, what used to be called, BTOpenworld/broadband/ADSL. I don't use (as far as I know) any of the "dialer" or Yahoo specific software. I have only just recently noticed that when I go to Start Connect To BT I can click on OK without a password. Or with something that I know is NOT the correct password. And yet it will always connect. Surely there should be some password checking? There appears to be password checking to get to email but that it is not necessary to be able to connect to the Internet and browse??? Thanks for any help Steve |
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In article , "Steve" steve@. wrote:
Sorry. Wrong Board. Creeps away... I have seen claims that some providers authenticate via MAC address. If you change the hardware at your end, chances are the "free lunch" will stop working (unless you hack the MAC address, which is not the same thing as an IP address - MAC is confined to the wire from you to BT). Paul Steve "Steve" steve@. wrote in message ... Hi All. WXP SP1 Pro. Using, what used to be called, BTOpenworld/broadband/ADSL. I don't use (as far as I know) any of the "dialer" or Yahoo specific software. I have only just recently noticed that when I go to Start Connect To BT I can click on OK without a password. Or with something that I know is NOT the correct password. And yet it will always connect. Surely there should be some password checking? There appears to be password checking to get to email but that it is not necessary to be able to connect to the Internet and browse??? Thanks for any help Steve |
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Steve wrote: Hi All. WXP SP1 Pro. Using, what used to be called, BTOpenworld/broadband/ADSL. I don't use (as far as I know) any of the "dialer" or Yahoo specific software. I have only just recently noticed that when I go to Start Connect To BT I can click on OK without a password. Or with something that I know is NOT the correct password. And yet it will always connect. Surely there should be some password checking? There appears to be password checking to get to email but that it is not necessary to be able to connect to the Internet and browse??? Thanks for any help Steve If there is just a single user, WinXP probably created a "default" network logon that identifies the computer/user, especially if static IP's are involved. The identification could be the NIC's MAC and/or WinXP's SID. |
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"Paul" wrote in message ... In article , "Steve" steve@. wrote: Sorry. Wrong Board. Creeps away... I have seen claims that some providers authenticate via MAC address. If you change the hardware at your end, chances are the "free lunch" will stop working (unless you hack the MAC address, which is not the same thing as an IP address - MAC is confined to the wire from you to BT). Paul There's no password because the form of authentication is the phone number of the line used for ADSL, and I think anybody trying to "hack" your connection would find it very difficult physically disconnecting your line from your address, and re-routing it to them...unlike 56k etc, ADSL is bound to the line you have it installed on. |
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