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

["Fallert, Adam Christian" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

If you connect to my network without my written or spoken consent, you
have in fact taken something from me/invaded my privacy.

For starters you have used a piece of my service without compensation.
Broadband in Columbia allows roughly 3 megs of bandwidth.  If you are
using at the same time I am, then I cannot use my service to its full
potential.

Privacy... it's my home network.  Mine.  If you stumble across my
network and see it as an open window then that is one thing.  That
doesn't mean I have invited you into MY service.  

Besides, Matt has already said he won't do "much" snooping.  That sounds
like privacy invasion to me.
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Adam C. Fallert
I-Net Administrator
308H Cornell Hall
University of Missouri - Columbia
Columbia, MO. 65202
Phone: (573) 884-1385
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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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