Re: NEWS: Wi-Fi Poaching Draws Fine

Mark McIntyre wrote:
On Wed, 30 May 2007 22:54:01 -0700, in alt.internet.wireless , Philip
<me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

dold@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Philip <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
For those folks that set up wide-open WiFi networks and do not bother to change the router factory defaults, I usually access their router admin page, add some security and of course a password. If they happen to also have a network printer with no share password, I also try to print out a list of the changes I made for them :)
Now, _that_ you should get arrested for. ;-(

Who are you to change someone else's setup?
Technically they never set it up, that's the problem.

If you left your house door unlocked and a random stranger nipped in
changed the locks without telling you, how would you react?

If a really bad person hit that kind of set up, the victim might not ever know they were hosting internet scam sites or handing out porn :)

Sure. Trespass is still trespass, even if done with good intent. If I
had forgotten to lock the front door at bedtime, do you think I'd
react well on finding you in my kids' bedroom at 4am, "checking the
windows"?

You all have the wrong analogy.

Bringing home a wireless router and just turning it on is more like buying a house with no doors or windows. Then erecting a big flashing neon sign (the SSID) that says "open house house, please come and take a look. Make yourself at home and feel free to use the phone and watch television".

The California initiative requires a label on wireless equipment warning users to add the doors and locks. The sign is still often left out on the street.
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