> > > The problem is that we have three categories of use here -- the person > who gets on to an open wireless network, checks a few things, and then > quits; the person who spends a moderate amount of time and bandwidth > on open wireless networks for extended periods of time; and finally, a > person who saturates the wireless network with their own traffic, > rendering it unusable to anyone else. > > > The third person is a leech, and is likely to be unwelcome on any > network; if the wireless network were a commons, this would be an > abuse of the commons. This is an abuse of any sort of shared resource, > even if the resource were to be shared deliberately. I'll buy that > as exploitation. > > There is always the "give them an inch and they take a mile" type people in every aspect of life, why should wireless networking be any different? Secure the network if you don't want someone abusing it. Like locking your car so someone doesn't drive it off when you're parked next to Chicano park in the Barrio.
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