'He made the mistake of loudly announcing his wifi password to his guests': Dude hijacks terrible neighbor's wifi to get even

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    Font - Posted by u/LegitAndroid May Neighbor kept hogging the shared garden, so I kept his wifi hostage until he moved out A few years ago, my gf and I used to live in a small building with only a handful of apartments and a tiny garden we shared with the rest of the residents. My neighbor was this guy everyone hated: constantly blaring music, leaving trash in front of his door, loud drunken grillparties all weekend, every weekend, and ignoring all requests to keep it down, citing his 'rights' t
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    Font - Our window had a direct view to the garden where he hosted said grill parties (despite numerous requests to let other people use the space too), and one day I noticed he had a similar sound system to ours. It required no authentication for a bluetooth connection, so I wrote a program that would connect to his speakers the moment he turned them on, and played the same 15 seconds of go po sounds on repeat. He kept taking the speakers to the service, which obviously didn't help, so he bought
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    Font - Since he made the mistake of loudly announcing his wifi password to his guests regularly, I connected to it, realized he never changed the default router password, and wrote another program that connected automatically and kept rotating his admin pw. I even set up my old laptop to run this program continuously.
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    Font - It also kept streaming g✩ pOto his TV at random intervals, printed a luscious Opic whenever his printer came online, and either abruptly changed the volume of his speakers every 47 minutes, or kept subtly increasing/decreasing it through several hours. I saw people from our ISP at his apartment several times trying to 'fix' his network, to no avail-the moment they reset his wifi, my program was already there, changing the admin pw. After about 3 months of this, they gave him a new router
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    Font - Instead of his usual blaring music, we listened to him yell and smash kitchenware the last few weeks before he finally moved out. It was like music to our ears nonetheless. EDIT: I'm getting the feeling the technical aspects of this might sound unfeasible to some, so let me clarify: I had his default wifi password, that he never changed. Same for his router-we had the same ISP, obviously I knew the default pw and which IP address it was running on. He gave me unfettered access to his whol
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    Font - Zoreb1 8 hr. ago I would have tossed in Baby Shark and other jammin' tunes. 1.2k Reply Share LegitAndroidMay OP. 7 hr. ago Our hero was kinda hophobic from what we've overheard, so I decided to stick to the basics. You should have heard the embarrassed/angry stammering the first time his speakers started playing go PO in front of his friends. I wish I would have had the mind to record that. 1.3k Reply Share
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    Font - hibernacle_. Not me reading this as you kept his wife hostage 290 LegitAndroid May OP My gf didn't like that idea so much, so I had to change a few letters in the plan Reply Share 174 Reply Share hibernacle_ Haha i don't blame her. Taking the WiFi hostage was a brilliant alternative! Glad you got a laugh out of it and much needed peace. I'm grateful for having the quietest neighbours known to man 52 Reply Share
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    Font - Technical_Ad_4894. My god, you were relentless 65 Reply Share
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    Font - AnotherPassager Probably the most skillful revenge Ive read here. 4 35 Reply Share

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