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Minas Tirith | reply to BF69
Re: What Is A Crime? said by BF69:If people don't want their signal "stolen" then SECURE it. PERIOD. How lazy do you have to be to not do that? As far as the library thing. Well it's a PUBLIC library paid with PUBLIC tax $$ so what difference does it make if someone is using the signal from inside or outside? This I can agree with. The library was paid for with public monies [tax $ from you & me]. I essentially 'paid' for the library, so I should be able to use it's resources.
If the library restricts the use some way, they should encrypt it somehow [WEP, WAP, ect.]
And it's not so cut & dried. I know of someone who has some many unsecured connections they always have to make sure they have their own. Not much of an inconvenience, but should we have to do this?
It all comes down do the same thing - secure your connection, by some means!!! It may be argued that using someone else's bandwidth is theft and that just because something is available, doesn't mean you have to use it, but this is being blown out of proportion.
And as for having a law that wi-fi for businesses must have some encryption - good idea. Not to say that home users don't, but businesses can have a lot of financial information on their sites, and if it's wide open, that's an invitation to trouble. |
