Can my brother look at what i'm doing while i'm on the internet?

Question

me my brother and my sister all have seperate computers, and they're all wireless, connected up to the same network. he keeps saying that he has a way that he can look at what me and my sister are doing while were on our computers? is this true and is there a way i can stop him?

sorry if its a little hard to understand...

Answer 1

Well, he could easily use Wireshark with the wireless card in promiscuous mode.

Anyone ever hear of a packet sniffer???

Guess what. 99% of the time, your username and password and flying by in cleartext, not encrypted.

I would say, be nicer to your brother and maybe he'll teach you a thing or 2.

Answer 2

nope i dont think so,but you said you sure he can hack well thats his way

into your infomation

how to stop him?if your older beat him up jk jk jk..is there a way u can block him from doing that

Answer 3

Only if he hacks.  But if I were you I would alert your parents to what he says.

Answer 4

if your asking if he can see what sites you visit while you are on the computer then the answer is yes but he would have to do that from your computer -- not likely that he can see what you do on your computer from his -- unless you gave remote access to him  

Answer 5

Yes. If he routes your wireless requests through his computer, and he has a program that can translate those requests into which websites you're accessing. But he probably just sneaks onto your computer when you're not looking and skims over your web history.

Answer 6

Hacking won't do anything unless you've got "Remote Assistance" turned on and even with that he needs to know the password and user name to your computer. Basically he's probably just bs'n you.

Answer 7

no, unless he knows how to hack

Answer 8

Yeah, it's easy and it requires no 'hacking' skills. He just needs to log into the router and check the router history and what computer made the requests. Can't stop it, I'm afraid, as that's just one of the features routers have.

I mean you could turn off the logging but then he'll simply just turn it back on, plus it seems like he's the only one who knows the password for the router so, yeah.

Aside from that, if he's is a skilled 'hacker' he could be able to view the signals being sent by the router, though I highly doubt that.

I use the term hacker loosely, though as most self-proclaimed 'hackers' are nothing more than people who downloaded a program to do it for them.