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

["Christian M. Cepel" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

For a Philosophical Discussion, this is fine.   If however you choose to 
remain unconvinced and choose to act, you will be just as culpable if 
someone chooses to prosecute you.

In that realm, it becomes an 'assumption or risk'.

Mike Miller wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, Nimrod Levy wrote:
>
>> The point is that just because someone has an open AP that is 
>> broadcasting it's SSID for all to see, you do not have the right to 
>> connect and make use of the resources unless you have explicit 
>> permission from the network operator.  And even if you do have that 
>> consent, it may be (and usually is) a violation of your upstream 
>> provider's residential AUP to share that connection with someone else.
>
>
>
> Tell me about this when someone is successfully sued or prosecuted for 
> simply connecting to an open network that required no password and was 
> broadcasting its presence to the surrounding world.  When that 
> happens, I'll believe that there is some validity in the arguments I'm 
> seeing here. Otherwise, I remain unconvinced.
>
> Mike
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