Neighborhood WiFi Security

picaro writes to tell us the New York Times has an interesting piece about the abundance of open wireless connections available due to the lack of the average user's knowledge. The article also takes a look at how the prevalent attitude is that tapping in to these connections does not equate to stealing and why still other may disagree. From the article: "Piggybacking, the usually unauthorized tapping into someone else's wireless Internet connection, is no longer the exclusive domain of pilfering computer geeks or shady hackers cruising for unguarded networks. Ordinarily upstanding people are tapping in. As they do, new sets of Internet behaviors are creeping into America's popular culture."

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Wow...

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I don't know about everyone else by my broadband is expensive. I am not 100% that I want the entire neighborhood benefitting from my $45.00 a month to stream video and choke my connection. Remember that social ideas are always spoiled by the greedy - and that describes most of humanity.