RE: [MLUG] Looking 4 mad cheap PCI wireless cards

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Fallert, Adam Christian wrote:

> Exploitation of weak security for one's benefit...
> Invasion of privacy...
> Theft of bandwidth...
>
> Forgive me, but I don't understand your logic.
>
> If you let your guard down for one second and your wallet gets stolen 
> from a pick pocket, would you still say the same?


If I use your network, I haven't taken anything from you.  I haven't 
invaded your privacy unless I have looked at packets on your network.  No 
one is claiming to have done that.  Regarding "theft of bandwidth" - your 
only reasonable point - it would be hard to claim theft when the owner of 
the wifi access point is giving his bandwidth away.  People do this 
intentionally all the time.  If they didn't want to give it away, they 
would follow the instructions in their documentation and they would use 
WEP and a password.  We are talking about access points with no password 
at all.  People who configure their access points without passwords are 
offering a public service.  I'm serious.  It is generous of them to do 
this.  By the same token, it would be rude, but not criminal, to overuse 
the bandwidth they have shared with us by doing large numbers of huge file 
transfers, or whatnot.

Mike
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