Bob Foxworth wrote:
>> Ian C. Blenke wrote:
> Nocatsplash legal warning? Mysterious. Is is *possible* to avoid the
> liability of someone, say, sending kiddie porn over your bandwidth?
<snip>
>> Bottom line, I wouldn't have wifi without locking it down as hard
>> as possible. Maybe not even then. I don't mind using others',
>> though.
<snip>
> And then there's the opinion of one Timothy B. Lee, who authors the
> piece appearing in today's (16 March) New York Times, page A23 [the
> Op-Ed page] titled Hop On My Bandwidth.
>
> Lee, who is a "policy analyst at the Show-Me Institute, a
> non-partisan research organization", and a "regular contributor to
> the Technology Liberation Front web-site" [that explains a lot]
> argues, in a 3-column half page, above the fold essay, why it is
> "O.K. to borrow someone's wireless network" along with some anecdotes
> of how it worked for him. It should be in your neighborhood library,
> if you're interested.
Hi Bob!
It is ok depending on whether or not what you do is ok. I don't want to
chance anyone *else's* ethics.
Regards,
Pete
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