[P1] OT: Setting up Public Wi-Fi

[Michael Flournoy]

My son's Karate class is in a strip mall. If I sit in my car while he 
is in his class I can connect to someone's wireless and surf the net. I 
don't have a clue where the base station is. There are at least 3 good 
possibilities. To me if you "broadcast" something it is, by default, 
being offered to whoever has the equipment to receive it. Radio 
stations would love to force a subscription charge if they could figure 
out how. But the technology requires them to " broadcast " impartially 
when they use a public wavelength.
If I want to use wireless networking internally and don't want to share 
it then it is my responsibility to lock it down.
           Mike

On Mar 13, 2004, at 10:32 PM, gwallace wrote:

> On Mar 13, 2004, at 8:52 PM, Harry D. Corsover wrote:
>
>> How does this relate to what we're talking about?
> I think listening to someone else's radio is much closer than using 
> their hammer or stealing their car.  I turn on my computer, my airport 
> automatically connects to the network, my mail downloads by itself 
> before I even notice I'm connected.  Yes, I've "used" the signal being 
> broadcast by somebody nearby, just like I've listened to the music 
> being played on the next beach blanket.  But I haven't interfered with 
> anybody else's property and haven't even actually done anything other 
> than turning my computer on.  So, is it my responsibility to search 
> for the neighbor with the unprotected network so I can ask permission, 
> or alternately, am I expected to turn airport off when I use my iBook 
> at home? From the lively debate on this list, it appears that the 
> answer is far from clear.
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