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>sorry for asking this here, but...
You're suppose to appologize after asking, not before.
>lets say there's 2 people living in a house. they get wireless DSL
>internet.
>person A has the wireless setup in their room and the main account
>setup on their computer.
>
>person B, has their computer in a whole other room and just links onto
>the wireless signal and accesses the net via their own browser.
>
>could person A track the activities (without in depth software)of
>person B?
>even chat logs like on MSN messenger?
Yes. It would take some effort and knowledge, but it's possible. In
general, you setup a wireless sniffer to capture packets. Computer A
can certainly hear the access point. If computer A can hear computer
B directly, then it can capture both sides of computer B's
communications. It's just like a wiretap. Since the entire wireless
system uses a single encryption key, the encryption key is already
known.
>is there an administration setup already on the account that would
>allow this? every website and even find out passwords?
In such an arrangement, there's no individual security. You only have
network security and that's limited to the WEP/WPA encryption key.
Everything else can be sniffed, recorded, and analyzed. I have tools
that let me recreate messages based on the IP sequence numbers. No
big deal.
>i am concerned thatperhaps this is being done to me.
If computer A is running Windoze, don't worry much about it. If it's
running Linux, be concerned. If there are Linux LiveCD's around,
start seriously worrying.
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