Re: Pls help - want to travel wirelessly and ckeck emails

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In <43fd03db$0$58088$742ec2ed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> on Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:37:57
-0800, SMS <scharf.steven@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark McIntyre wrote:

On the other hand, accidentally leaving the door open, or accidentally
failing to secure your router, does NOT mean someone has carte blanche
to walk straight in.

Very difficult to prove that leaving it open was accidental, since so
many people intentionally leave their routers open for anyone to use,
often without an obvious SSID that indicates that it's free.
[SNIP additional silly claims]

There's no presumption that it's open (no matter what you might claim) -- the
burden of proof is actually on the user (abuser) to prove that it was open.

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