On Mar 11, 2008, at 10:49 AM, Brad Beyenhof wrote:
No, but doing so won't decrease the number of lumens available to the inside of the house. In any case, despite the imperfect analogy, it's still not an issue worth worrying about (on either end of the transaction). If, for some reason, you care about having access to your full bandwidth at all times, put up WPA.
Personally, had I the time and inclination, I'd simply set up a captive portal for free access to my home's connection, but throttle it down to a small (but useable) fraction of my available bandwidth. Enough to surf the web, check email, but not enough to make file sharing or large downloads practical. Then again, I'd likely capture the MAC address and do a full nmap-scan of the host before allowing it online, too.
Or you can come into my house, and ask permission, and I'll just as likely give you full access.
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