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Could That Be The Wireless Police Knocking?
netbuzz writes "Should private-property owners be required to practice safe wireless? Are the wireless police about to come a-knockin' on the front door of your castle? Network World reports on a condo complex in Arizona that will monitor your wireless signal for security. Is this the way all condos and apartment complexes should go?" From the article: "'We just kind of kicked it around the table and everybody said that's a helluva good idea, (mandatory encryption) ought to go in the declarations,' says Welch. However, a lawyer warned that wireless technology could quickly overrun any specific covenants they put to paper, 'so we decided that instead of recording (declarations) at the county that we would leave it up to the hotel manager to put it in their rules and regulations.' Why bother at all? 'We just don't want to see anybody hurt with their wireless system,' says Welch. 'If someone (unauthorized) were accessing it and an owner's information, there could be damage and a potential lawsuit.'"
Many cities require property owners to clean/paint over any graffitti; uncontrolled internet access could be used to deface sites.
You can't display a corpse, or a facsimile of a corpse in public in most US counties; uncontrolled internet access could be used to spam goatse.
It's also often illegal to leave your car keys in view in/around your car unattended; You have the responsablity to control your tools.
You can't wear a ski mask into a bank, no matter how cold it is; anonymous internet access could be used to commit a crime.
As a 'public nuisance' the nuisance would have to be weighed aganist the benifit, dairy farms stink, but I do like to eat cheese.
Demand the industry to have encryption on as a default. That way people who have no clue will be protected and people who want it open can still open it.
Oh wait, the industry has a lobby so that won't be happening. No, let us put the burden on the consumer. They don't have fuck to say anyway.
Don't fight for your country, if your country does not fight for you.
Because you can't secure Windoze
You can. My Windows is running fine.
btw, did you make your wife wear a paper bag when you were conceiving that incubus of yours? Would make sense.
By summer it was all gone...now shesmovedon. --