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Originally Posted by JustDisGuy
Not necessarily. I run an open WiFi node as a service to my neighbors and as an act of self-protection.
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That's fair enough and indeed quite common in some areas. It's called community networking. Kudos for you for doing this. But flyguy implied that they knew the other person had not intended it this way and it was "their own damn fault."
If people here honestly can't see a difference, then the problem lies with them, not me.
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If I find another open WiFi node, I can only assume that it is intentionally configured that way - I see no reason to think otherwise.
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You could argue that, but chances are that most people have unencrypted WiFi networks due to errors on their part. To argue otherwise is to dodge the question. I believe in many states, claiming "ignorance" is not a legal defence. At least that's what the cop shows would have us believe.
Anyway, I'm not going to get into an ethical argument about the pros and cons of stealing bandwidth from non-technical users. Any reasonable person knows this is wrong. There's a chance it's being offered free, but there's also a
higher probability that it is not.
Mr Mephisto