What are my odds of being busted?

Don't ever go to Central Michigan University….

here at CMU they restrict internet usage to 5GB incoming and 2GB out going traffic per week. Needless to say I go over my limit pretty much every week around Thursday and then don't have internet for the rest of the week…. this makes scobe angry.

Knowing that I am issued a dynamic IP address I ruled out the blocking by IP, so I figured they must be blocking me via mac address. I was right. But when I spoofed a generic mac that I just made up I was asked to register the machine under my global ID. That's when I found out that they are keeping track of bandwidth quota by global ID regardless of how many systems your running. ( gar, scobe is getting very angry)

So I figured if I can't use my own I'd use some one else's… So I threw up Wire Shark in promiscuous mode and waited for a likely candidate to show up… took about 30 seconds to find a few people browsing the internet sorted through a little bit and found the mac.

So I ended up bombing that IP out with DoS (didn't think that actually worked any more) so I could log on and this finally worked, For the next few weeks I did this changing it up every day so no one really noticed.

This was starting to get to be a real pain though so I decided to hijack one of the lab computers mac addresses that don't have bandwidth quotas.

Long story short I swapped my limited mac for the lab's computer's limitless mac and everything seems to be going smoothly…. too smoothly.

Can any one tell me what my chances are at getting busted? I'm 99.9% sure that the lab computer will never go over it's bandwidth quota as I picked the oldest and slowest computer on campus to do the swap with and I've never actually seen any one use it.

So does any one know how I'd get busted and what I can / should do.

oh btw this is all hypothetical of course ;-)

odds are pretty good you'll get caught on something like that. I used to be an admin for my UNI's network…. If you are using the net in your dorms or w/e, they probably can track down which room you are in. Be careful, eh?

Hmm.. Well I think I'm only gonna use it as a fall back for when they block me.

But, Only_Samuri, what did you do to people at your school when you caught them doing stuff like that? Best I can find is they 'refer you to student services'

no idea what they did, that wasnt my job…. i just found people…. i quit that job tho… felt too much like a fed. lmfao… besides, have a nice dev job

yarr… i bet that didnt keep you from the interwebz tho. :D

Awesome, doesn't sound like there gonna call the feds on me :p

scobe wrote: Awesome, doesn't sound like there gonna call the feds on me :p

Nah, just SE them a bit. They could suspense you from using the computers for a month or something, but the whole feds thing seems far-fetched to me.

my university has no bandwidth limit as far as i can tell. they do watch the torrent traffic though and i gotten a notice once to 'stop downloading so much' from DC++. it got me kinda freaked out that they monitor this but they never really did anything to me since then.

movies and songs. there isn't much more to download from our university's DC++

Yaa, I doubt they'd call the feds on one of their own students.

1. You're the one paying tuition for the school.
2. They're prolly too lazy to get THAT serious. Considere all the papers they'll have to fill if they did that.

They'd just 'ground' you from using the university network. But that doesn't stop many people :D

Only way they would get someone higher to do something about you, is if you changed your grades or something.

I'd say that if you tell this story on a forum like HBH, chances to get busted are increased… Specially if they monitor what you're doing online and you visit HBH from there. :xx:

Also, if the feds would get involved this could maybe be used as proof…

Just be careful.