Tom's presenting very sound points. First, it's dangerous. Anyone can sit in a car in front of your house with a laptop, download nasty stuff, and put it into your shared folders...then inform on you. Or, they can otherwise use your Internet connection for undesirable activities. Or, just snoop and capture a lot of information about you.
Also, the providers are losing business as you violate the "Terms of Use" for the service. Paying customers are lost. It's no different than theft-of-service by wiring an apartment through tree-and-branch Ethernet ...similar to wiring up video cable theft. Not last, but serious, most of those folks are technologically challenged and often lock their laptop onto neighbor's open Wi-Fi AP and then cause the provider a support problem. Again, not last; it's stupid. Such folks should be very grateful to have the situation explained. . . . j o n a t h a n -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom DeReggi Sent: Monday, July 03, 2006 1:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; WISPA General List Subject: Re: [WISPA] War Driving Police > I have yet to understand how having open WiFi poses a threat to anyone. How do you figure? Identify theft! Consume your bandwidth! Conduit for terrorists to cause havoc without being able to be found! (possibly making end users liable for havoc). I believe a customer has just as much obligation and liabilty to to secure their networks as an ISP does. Or they are liable due to neglect. Tom DeReggi RapidDSL & Wireless, Inc IntAirNet- Fixed Wireless Broadband ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter R." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "WISPA General List" <wireless@wispa.org> Sent: Friday, June 30, 2006 12:18 AM Subject: [WISPA] War Driving Police > http://techdirt.com/articles/20060629/1843240.shtml > > from a comment: > > I have yet to understand how having open WiFi poses a threat to anyone. > If anyone is going to be war driving I would think it would be the > internet providers, since it's your agreement with them that is being > broken by leaving your WiFi unsecured. > > -- > > > Regards, > > Peter > RAD-INFO, Inc. - NSP Strategist > We Help ISPs Connect & Communicate > 813.963.5884 > http://4isps.com/newsletter.htm > > -- > WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
