Re: [SLUG] Wifi security fun with your neighbors.

From: Ian C. Blenke (ian@blenke.com)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 13:37:56 EDT


Anthony DiPierro wrote:

> It's only subletting if you charge for the access. Otherwise you'd be
> just as much in violation for letting your girlfriend or cousin use
> your connection as you would be for letting your neighbor use it.
>
> Besides, most TOS agreements are pretty much meant to be broken. The
> verizon wireless one, for instance, prohibits downloading music!

And if your neighbor is downloading inappropriate content, are you at
fault or are you a common carrier?

I doubt common carrier status would apply to supplying your neighbors
with your residential broadband service.

It's a very slippery slope. The true paranoid among us would probably
use WPA2 and disable SSID broadcasts...

;)

 - Ian C. Blenke <ian@blenke.com> http://ian.blenke.com/

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