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

[Rick Buford <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Mike Miller wrote:

> Tell me about this when you find a case - just one case in the entire 
> country - where someone is convicted or sued successfully for doing this.

I'm with Nimrod on this one, just because it wasn't prosecuted (and in 
most cases, probably went completely unnoticed) doesn't make it right. 
If someone isn't smart enough to setup basic security on their network, 
then they're probably not smart enough to know -why- their network 
performs like crap.

Sidepoint: this a case in point of why I started archiving your posts 
unread Mike.  Someone makes a point, and you start insisting that it's 
their responsibility to provide proof. Why don't you provide some 
evidence that someone was sued for this type of behavior and was 
acquitted or found innocent?

> In the example you gave, a wifi users is getting poor performance 
> because he configured his system badly and his neighbors are accessing 
> his wifi. That's his fault.  Proper configuration will yield better 
> performance. His neighbors might not even know that they are accessing 
> his network. It is very easy to do - just go to a different room of 
> your house and you might suddenly be using your neighbor's network.  
> In fact, you might both have easily given your wireless networks the 
> same name (e.g., 'linksys') and it might not even be possible for many 
> users to tell whose network they are on!  Try prosecuting that.  Would 
> the crime be "using your neighbors wifi on purpose?"  Or would it be 
> "using your neighbor's wifi?"

Perhaps you should steal cable, and then try to use this same argument 
when you visit the courthouse.

>
> This all seems ridiculous to me.  It is more ridiculous because you 
> guys are usually on the side of freedom and against restrictive laws.


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