Quite a few people don't have the expertise to be able to lock theirs up. Me? I'm locking mine down if I ever have wifi. If I pay for something like that, I am not about to have someone leeching my speed. There are way too many places to get it for free.
Well there are a lot of places who don't, and like it that way. The open internet attracts business. Coffee shops, bookstores, and eateries, to name a few, sometimes have this open to attract customers. So there are too many places to get it for free without leaching off of other citizens.
As others have pointed out, not everyone has the nouse to secure their wireless networks.
It would be nice to have wireless internet access wherever you are, for free, but again as others have said, someone has to foot the bill, nothing is for free.
Those with Clue will have secured their networks. Those without Clue may not have. Being without Clue, they may also not realise this leaves them open to running out of quota on their broadband.
Is it right to take advantage in that situation? What would your reaction be if someone hacked *your* wireless (assuming you had shoved some sort of security on it) - it's not that hard to do - and had used your quota? Would you just think oh well, that's the way it goes, I will live without the internet for the next week or two? Would you fork out happily for more quota, knowing you couldn't possibly have used it all?
Just because the wireless is open, and there, and convenient, doesn't make it right to use it, unless it's actually a public access point put in for just that reason.
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Date: 2007-08-23 08:47 am (UTC)Not if everyone locks their networks, there aren't.
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Date: 2007-08-22 11:18 pm (UTC)It would be nice to have wireless internet access wherever you are, for free, but again as others have said, someone has to foot the bill, nothing is for free.
Those with Clue will have secured their networks. Those without Clue may not have. Being without Clue, they may also not realise this leaves them open to running out of quota on their broadband.
Is it right to take advantage in that situation? What would your reaction be if someone hacked *your* wireless (assuming you had shoved some sort of security on it) - it's not that hard to do - and had used your quota? Would you just think oh well, that's the way it goes, I will live without the internet for the next week or two? Would you fork out happily for more quota, knowing you couldn't possibly have used it all?
Just because the wireless is open, and there, and convenient, doesn't make it right to use it, unless it's actually a public access point put in for just that reason.
That's my opinion, anyway :)