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Connecting to unsecured wireless: Is it hijacking? by ChuckAB2006-11-19 12:55:59
  I do it when i'm in the city by MikeCDN 2005-01-27 09:11:30
Turn on my laptop while downtown, wait 1 minute, my laptop will have a internet connection, open ICQ.

I have no moral qualm with it.

The way I look at it, my computer, asks your computer / access point for permission, your computer gives my computer the SSID and the connection details, my computer asks yours for LAN information, yours willing gives me info through the DHCP.

Your computer invites mine to connect by willingly giving all the details. If you don't want it then don't let it give me the details.

It's like telling a child not to let strangers into the home. Stranger comes to the door, asks to come in, kid can either let them or refuse. The stranger may have good or bad purposes, but they were still invited in.
[ Reply ]
    Wrong wrong wrong! by BloodyViking2005-01-27 09:39:54
    Using your logic... by Illiad2005-01-27 10:05:18
      Nonono, we had that already by Control2005-01-27 10:09:10
        No, that's your interpretation. by Illiad2005-01-27 10:12:54
          Sorry, I can't agree there by Control2005-01-27 10:21:03
            Which amounts to this morality: by Illiad2005-01-27 10:24:26
              That's a compliment I can return by Control2005-01-27 10:29:05
                Impasse. by Illiad2005-01-27 10:31:11
              I disagree by MikeCDN2005-01-27 10:30:35
                Assumption again: by Illiad2005-01-27 10:33:08
                  There you go again, assuming stupidity by Control2005-01-27 10:36:39
                    Why does it matter? by Illiad2005-01-27 10:40:49
                  If someone couldn't secure it by MikeCDN2005-01-27 10:38:46
                    OK, so they didn't read the manual. by Illiad2005-01-27 10:42:19
                      I just see it differently by MikeCDN2005-01-27 10:54:36
                        The server analogy... by Illiad2005-01-27 10:58:10
                          A WAP is specifically tasked to handle by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:01:37
                            oh, all that being said by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:06:27
                              um... and there you crossed the line by plblark2005-01-27 11:20:39
                                Hmm by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:21:56
                                Same as telling a woman her mammary is hanging out by Control2005-01-27 11:25:36
                                I await Illiad or someone else commenting by plblark2005-01-27 11:35:47
                                Wasn't meant quite that seriously by Control2005-01-27 11:39:16
                                I didn't mean as a mod, I meant in response to by plblark2005-01-27 11:48:05
                                Information on a computer by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:51:29
                                wouldn't it feel like stalking? by plblark2005-01-27 11:54:37
                                I'm sure it would by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:58:04
                                I'd call the cops and place a camera to catch them by plblark2005-01-27 12:03:54
                                So you'd rather by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:04:53
                                twist.turn. avoid. cloud. by plblark2005-01-27 12:07:30
                                It's exactly what you said by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:08:41
                                I'd prosecute someone who entered my car by plblark2005-01-27 12:11:27
                                If someone was willing to leave a note by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:19:25
                                here's my response: by plblark2005-01-27 12:24:47
                                I live in a house too by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:27:49
                                Sadly, I cannot pick up dozens of hotspots by plblark2005-01-27 12:32:19
                                At home by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:38:38
                                Legal maybe, Ethical... by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:41:24
                                but that is an ENTIRELY different case by plblark2005-01-27 11:45:21
                                So you don't think by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:48:09
                                you're twisting here and avoiding the intrusion by plblark2005-01-27 11:53:42
                                How would there be another way to warn? by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:56:17
                                you consider putting a file on theit PC ethical? by plblark2005-01-27 12:02:35
                                Your hung up on the action by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:04:24
                                the actions you took are unethical and illegal her by plblark2005-01-27 12:09:06
                                legal does not always equal ethical by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:13:25
                                the stepstaken in warning breeched their privacy ( (n/t) by plblark2005-01-27 12:21:36
                                but it wasn't taken advantage of by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:25:54
                                how do THEY know that? by plblark2005-01-27 12:30:29
                                Yeah by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:34:12
                                agreed to disagree then by plblark2005-01-27 12:35:34
                                would you be offended if I TLP this since it's by plblark2005-01-27 12:38:32
                                Go for it by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:51:17
                                net send? by lonegunman2005-01-27 12:50:12
                                Didn't consider that by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:52:36
                                the popup is more regulated by plblark2005-01-27 12:55:24
                              Eh... by Illiad2005-01-27 11:26:09
                                You live in Canuckistan too :) by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:28:38
                                You Liberal!!!1111eleven (n/t) by Illiad2005-01-27 11:32:14
                                Would you belive I voted Alliance? by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:35:24
                                You neocon!!!!111hundredandeleven by Illiad2005-01-27 11:36:04
                                YOU pot smoking hippy!!!!111111111!!!!111!!! by MikeCDN2005-01-27 11:39:07
                                Hey man... by Illiad2005-01-27 11:58:47
                                Can't blame you at all by MikeCDN2005-01-27 12:01:25
                Other assumptions you are making: by BloodyViking2005-01-27 11:08:28
      I disagree by MikeCDN2005-01-27 10:24:06
        Completely irrelevant. by Illiad2005-01-27 10:30:23
          how is it selfish? by MikeCDN2005-01-27 10:36:03
            using up gas by plblark2005-01-27 10:37:49
            The harm comes from... by Illiad2005-01-27 10:39:29

 

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