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Submitted by whirlpool on Thu, 02/12/2004 - 12:06.
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Someone sent me this. I cannot verify the information, but I trust him. So the following are probably accurate.

Hot Spot Name and Address

Alexandria

Beano's

37 Victor Emanuel Sq., Semouha

Cilantro

Carrefour, Alexandria City Center

Cilantro

1 Kafr Abdo St., Roushdi

Trio

48 Fouad St.

Cairo Alexandria Desert Road

Bellisarus Café

28KM Cairo Alexandria Desert Road

Peace 1 Abou Zeid

5KM Cairo Alexandria Desert Road

Peace 2 Abou Zeid

13KM Cairo Alexandria Desert Road

Sans Souci

28KM Cairo Alexandria Desert Road

Dokki

Café Caprice

8 Amman Sq.

Café Tabasco

7 Musadak St.

Coffee Roastery

46 Shooting Club St.

Giordano's

14 Soliman Abaza St.

Jar El Kammar

52 Michel Bakhoum St.

La Poire

Shooting Club

Lipstick

6 El Thawra St.

Plato

15 Othman Ibn Affan St.

Retro

2 Soliman Abaza St.

Tia Maria

32 Jeddah St.

Tuscano

34 Michel Bakhoum St.

Down Town

Arcadia Mall

Corniche El Nil St.

Cilantro

31 Mohamed Mahmoud St., Opposite AUC

Garden City

Siniora Alfredo

3 Sheikh Yousef Sq.

Heliopolis

Beano's

15 Baghdad St., Korba

Cilantro

4 Ibrahim St. Heliopolis Sq.

Cilantro

87 Merghany St.

Coffee Roastery

5 Samir Mokhtar St., Off Nabil El Wakkad St.

Doff Café

96 Omar Ibn Khattab St.

Gelateria Roma

24 El Horreya St.

Lipstick

Florida Mall, Sheraton Housing

Pottery Café

4 Mohamed Bayoumy St., Ard El Golf

Presley's

19 Shams El Din El Dahaby St.

Reasons

46 Beirut St.

Tres Bon

14 Granada St.

Maadi

Abou El Sid

45 Road 7

Aghadir Restaurant

45 Road 9

Beau Jardin / Siciliana

23 Misr Helwan Rd.

Chilis

Bandar Mall, 1 Palestine St.

Cilantro

17 Road 216

Cilantro

90 Road 9

Cilantro

Carrefour, Maadi City Center

Coffee Roastery

Residence Hotel, 11 Road 18

Cuba Cabana

28 Road 7

Dadyus Café

45 Road 9

Fish Boat Abou Zeid

Corniche El Nil St.

Gold's Gym

1 Mahata Sq. Maadi Palace

Green Mill

32 Road 213, Degla

Maroush

7/2 Nasr St.

Scores

17 Road 213, Off Road 231, Degla

Marina-North Coast

La Poire

Champs Elysee St.

Mohandessin

bFly

3 Othman Ibn Affan St., Off Gezirat El Arab St.

Bull's Eye

32 Jeddah St.

Café Mo

14 Aswan Sq.

Cornetto

23 El Mahrouky St., Off Aswan Sq.

Karen's Coffee

27 26 July St., Lebanon Sq.

La Pietra

34 El Hegaz St.

Men'oucheh

4 El Themar St.

Maroush

64 Lebanon Sq.

Mint

30 Gezirat El Arab St.

Moods

El Zouhour St.

Pasqua

57 Lebanon St.

Safari's Club

19 El Yemen St. Off Lebanon St.

Spectra Café

14 Abdel Hameed Lotfy St.

Tio Café

24 Abdel Moneim Riyadh St.

Nasr City

Giordano's

9 Saudi Buildings Nozha St.

Jeans Café

12 Saudi Buildings Nozha St.

Red Rock (Food Tronica)

3 Saudi Buildings Nozha St.

Zein

9 Saudi Buildings Nozha St.

Sakara Road

Sakara Country Club

Sakara Road

Sharm El Sheikh

CCCP Café (Fresh Int. Co.)

Neama Bay

Cobanito Café

Neama Bay, Airport Road

Hadouta Café

Sharm El Maya

Melodies Pizza

Sharm El Maya

Zamalek

Beano's

8 El Marasafy Sq.

Café Tabasco

18B El Maraashly St.

Cilantro

157 26th of July St.

Euro Deli

22A Dr. Taha Hussein St.

Insomnia Snack Bar

110 26th of July St.

La Bodega

157 26th of July St.

La Poire

Al-Ahly Club

Le Pacha 1901

Saray El Gezirah St.

Nile City Boat

Corniche El Zamalek

No Big Deal Café

1A El Sayed El Bakry St.

The Living Room Café

19 El Gabalaya St.

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too many points
Submitted by POSIX on Thu, 02/12/2004 - 16:23.

any ne wanna check it i may check maadi

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Nasr City hotspot
Submitted by شخص خجول مجهول on Tue, 07/12/2004 - 03:28.

Does the area around my house count? :) My 1Mb ADSL connection is accessible through my A/G AP, and is deliberately left unencrypted/unprotected waiting for hunters! :)

I haven't had any intruders since I installed the AP two months ago. Shame, isn't it?

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thanx for your generosity
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Tue, 07/12/2004 - 03:38.

when I make the move to wireless I'll make sure to leave it open.

BTW you can probably use iproute2 and tc to shape the connection and control how much bandwidth is available for random intruders.

any ideas on the legality of this?

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Yep, that's what I'm doing. I
Submitted by estr4ng3d on Tue, 07/12/2004 - 22:46.

Yep, that's what I'm doing. I have set things up so that foreign MACs get DHCP leases in a different IP range than my LAN. Traffic generated by those IPs is shaped down using CBQ. So far zero foreign MACs have been logged. So much for Egyptian wardrivers! :)

I don't think there's a legal problem. It's YOUR bandwidth, you're free to do what you like with it, right? However there's of course the risk of someone parking around your house & committing cyber crimes that would later be traced back to your machine. Not very encouraging eh?

OFF TOPIC: That reminds me! I have information (the source of which I cannot disclose for security reasons ;) that my ISP's DSLAMs do not keep logs that can be used to trace back IP addresses to physical phone lines, but merely narrows the possibilities down to about 256*2 subscribers!
Can anyone confirm this? My ISP has a huge market share, and its name starts with a two letter acronym ;)

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nope
Alaa's picture
Submitted by Alaa on Wed, 08/12/2004 - 14:13.

its not your bandwidth its the ISPs bandwidth and you have a contract that allows you to use it.

in many cases the contract does not allow you to share your bandwidth (this would make it a breech of contract and not illegal tab3an), can you check what your ontract says? I'll check mine later.

but thats only one side of it, our communication law has an ambigous piece where it says it is a felony to run a public network service without permits, whats vague is the definition of public network services.

as for your ISP not keeping clear logs, I have no idea if thats true or not, but the obligation to keep clear logs that match IP to telephone line is a legal one they're supposed to keep these logs and make them available to security agencies without even a court order.

cheers,

Alaa

http://www.manalaa.net

"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"


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Egyptian laws: more than (rotten) ink on paper?
Submitted by estr4ng3d on Wed, 08/12/2004 - 15:26.

Laws laws laws.. We have truckloads of them, many of them don't make much sense, and many more are never enforced. I heard there's a "law" that incriminates any encryption in any form of communications, unless the parties involved get authorities approval. Now as a simple example it suffices to say that the majority of the educated population breaks the law each time they login to their webmail accounts (SSL based authentication).

Lets put all these criminals in jail!

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too bad .. hot spots will not last for long.
whirlpool's picture
Submitted by whirlpool on Sat, 11/12/2004 - 15:42.

it seems that those wifi hotspots were installed by TheWayOut ISP. And they are going to unfree them at the end of the year. And the list was just copied from a page in the TheWayOut website .

TheWayOut Hot Spot service is now available in more than 200 locations in Cairo! ... The WayOut Hot Spot service is FREE until the end of the year!

Anyways, according to this they are probably easy to hack.

Wi-Fi should be free. And TheWayOut is lame.


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