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DaMaGeINC
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

Neighbors are too dumb to know anything is wrong.

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by DaMaGeINC See Profile :

Neighbors are too dumb to know anything is wrong.
And obviously you have no working knowledge of right or wrong.

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

Do I care?

ps, the way I see it, my knowledge has made my wallet a little bit fatter. So Im cool with "STEALING" internet. ok. end of story.

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by DaMaGeINC See Profile :

Do I care?
You should care if you're running an IT repair business off a stolen connection.


DaMaGeINC
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

No biz here.

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by DaMaGeINC See Profile :

No biz here.
Oh, your profile seemed to mention somethng different. Might want to remove that, under Member Tech Services.

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DaMaGeINC
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

Not like anyone ever contacted me. lol. But its not like a "BUSINESS" More like online tech help and stuff. get it?

FiL
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

keep doing you, DM. I do the same. Plus I don't bog down their connection. Your not breaking any law, so what these fools got to use to judge you against?

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That's awesome logic. I might as well go take my neighbor's car tonight for a late night drive through Atlanta. They're not going to need it, they're sleeping.

And I'm sure there's no way the bank could use all that money they have in their vault. As long as I can make my wallet fatter right?

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said by imanogre See Profile :

That's awesome logic. I might as well go take my neighbor's car tonight for a late night drive through Atlanta. They're not going to need it, they're sleeping.

And I'm sure there's no way the bank could use all that money they have in their vault. As long as I can make my wallet fatter right?
To be fair, there is a difference between using something physical and something that is not physical. He's using a connection that is unlimited so technically he isn't hurting anyone. If you don't want people using your connection then lock it down!

I use to have my AP open but when a douchebag neighbor decides he can run p2p on it when I am trying to play a FPS. The free ride is over!

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A better analogy would be a peeping tom watching your big-screen TV through your open picture window...

Close teh drapes and do humanity a favor.

if DM isn't running a spam server, whatever! obviously the folks he's pulling from haven't noticed... hell, I was borrowing a neighbor's wifi for about 8 months until he noticed he forgot to lock it down. he asked me if I knew and had surfed. I told him the truth. He got mad at himself...
It's not like we are charged by the byte!
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

Thank you. I am very respectful with the connections. And since I have been load-balancing two of them, its even less strain for them both. I could throw in a few more nic's and some more ap's and really spread the load. *evil grin* Just like a few of you said, I do it to see if I can and to learn from it, and reap the benefits.

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Thank you. Users are responsible for educating themselves. I would imagine most of us lock our house and car doors before leaving them unattended. This really is not so different. Every router sold from the manufacturer comes with instructions on how to secure it. And if that's not enough there's free tech support 24/7. My Linksys manual strongly recommended setting up the encryption. Probably even states in the fine print that comes with the gadget that if you don't secure it, you're responsible for what happens. If you didn't take the time to protect yourself, the only one responsible is you.
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said by TKJunkMail See Profile :

said by DaMaGeINC See Profile :

Neighbors are too dumb to know anything is wrong.
And obviously you have no working knowledge of right or wrong.
Most of us don't care about right or wrong.Obviously you do, so you're more then welcome not to use free wifi

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by 81399672 See Profile :

Most of us don't care about right or wrong.
And that's why the rest of us have speed bumps in residential neighborhoods, and photo radar, and warrantless wiretaps.

Our society has reached a tipping point where enough people can't do "the right thing" without being watched that we have to live down to lower common denominators.

Mark

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by amigo_boy See Profile :

said by 81399672 See Profile :

Most of us don't care about right or wrong.
And that's why the rest of us have speed bumps in residential neighborhoods, and photo radar, and warrantless wiretaps.

Our society has reached a tipping point where enough people can't do "the right thing" without being watched that we have to live down to lower common denominators.

Mark
I love speed bumps, just drive over them in suv at regular speed and nothing happenes. Photo radar are easy to win especially when they are issued on business vehicle name. So all of those are fine by me.

FiL
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

Its not that we don't care. It's more so the convenience factor, and yes, its broadcast into my home, so I'm using it. They lock it down later, so what. No loss to either of us.

Your right though, your more then ok to NOT use the free wifi...

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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

said by FiL See Profile :

and yes, its broadcast into my home, so I'm using it.
that's how I feel right there.

I don't go out of my way to use anyones wifi, but if my computer can associate and get an ip from my bedroom, with no fancy tactics on my part, then its the neighbors bad for broadcasting to my home.

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said by DaMaGeINC See Profile :

Neighbors are too dumb to know anything is wrong.
Til they get a nastygram from their ISP
One of my linksys APs disappeared after seeding around 40gigs through it.
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Re: "Wi-Fi freeloaders would probably beg to differ..."

I hope it was something legal. You could cause a lot of problems for you neighbors. It never really crossed my mind to use somebody's connection on a regular basis. I do carry a laptop in my work van and sometimes I will connect to look up a place but that's it.

I just did a site survey with my laptop and there was a lot of connections and most of them were secured. Some were not. My neighbor across the street has an open network. I will tell him to secure it. Really nice guy.

Neighbor 1

Neighbor 2


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