On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 17:28:51 +0100, Paul Harper in message
<news:pg7ve1hdfnc4f6sgd17lkhl14hr83351ac@4ax.com > wrote:

> 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.
>

To call that utter bollocks is being far too polite about 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.
>

The possibility the courts might agree with your ridiculous sentiment is
pretty close to nil, IMO.

It isn't even remotely close to that. It is the same as leaving your gate
open, *nothing* more.

If all routers were delivered with the defaults et up being to hide the
SSID, then that might have *some* merit, but not much.

Given the fact that every router I have come across has factory default
setting of displaying it, and no warnings in the manual that you should
hide it, I would expect the majority of people have not done anything with
it.

That absolutely does NOT mean that most people are inviting anyone who
wants to share their connection.

IMO, your attempts here are just an attempt to justify theft.

>>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.
>

Yes it is.

Putting encryption on is like locking the door. Hiding the SSID is like
camouflaging the door.

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Alex Heney
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