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Maxxxt
Peculiar Mental Twist
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join:2001-06-12
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A funny moral question, take a $100 dollar bill, put a piece of gum on it, stick it to the public sidewalk outside your house. Now if I walk by and see it there, I am going to pick it up and put it in my pocket(minus the gum). If you have an unsecured wireless network, its just like putting it on the sidewalk. This man may have had malicious motives, but if the asswipe(read ignorant) homeowner didn't have his signal on the sidewalk it wouldn't have EVER happened? Maybe the homeowners and businesses should be charged with having and transmitting a unsecured network?
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winky
Turn Left At The Moon
join:2001-02-11
Saint Louis, MO
| "charged with having and transmitting a unsecured network?"
Now, there's an idea. Except for putting the burden of criminal intent on someone other than the criminal. Is leaving you car unlocked with the keys in the ignition a crime? I think it may be in some jurisdictions, just like creating an attractive nuisance (that's why you're required to restrict access to a swimming pool in your back yard) Until we get some competently written laws regarding this area all we're going to have is arguments and test cases. In general, I think the guideline would be, just because you can doesn't mean you should, or perhaps the "Golden Rule" should apply, at least to us, the non-criminals. Unfortunately, just like most of life's mishaps, people think it won't happen to them until it does. At that point, becoming indignant is just comical.
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winky
Turn Left At The Moon
join:2001-02-11
Saint Louis, MO
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I got some morals for ya....
(insert Popeye laugh here)
When I was in college many, many, many years ago, my roommate used to think it was great fun to heat a quarter with a propane torch and toss it down to the sidewalk from our second floor room. While I thought it blatantly sadistic, it was quite funny when some dude thought he found soda money and attempted to pick it up, often screeching like a loon and looking around; but never up. In light of unsecured wi-fi access I am surprised someone hasn't mentioned honeypots. Luring unsuspecting tards is always great fun also, and not quite so sadistic. Obviously nothing new for regular networks and certainly not for wi-fi as witnessed by this article from 2002:»www.securityfocus.com/news/552
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