On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 07:34:42 -0800, floyd@apaflo.com (Floyd L.
Davidson) wrote:

>Paul Harper <paul@harper.net> wrote:
>>On Tue, 2 Aug 2005 15:02:47 +0100, Alex Heney <me8@privacy.net> wrote:
>>
>>>There is one HUGE difference.
>>>
>>>There is no big sign saying "Free wireless connection here".
>>
>>There *is* if they are broadcasting (that's they key word, right
>>there) the SSID of the network.
>
>Please explain how that is true?

Easy.

You are broadcasting the presence of your network outside
of your premises. You are explicitly inviting people to use it,
especially if you do not put any security around it.

If you *don't* want people to use it, you would a) not broadcast it
and b) put security around it.

It's the direct equivalent of putting "help yourself" in front of a
pile of goods you leave outside your property boundary. It is
*exactly* the same as that.

>That is like saying the back door to the garage has to be
>camouflaged to hide the fact that a door exists.

No. It is nothing like that at all. Not remotely like that.

Paul (all IMO, of course)

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