How is a person to know what is going on with the access point? I leave my access point open for all who are within range to use. War drivers, check. Neighbors, check. Friends lugging their laptop around, check. They are all welcome to "poach" my wireless.
I do have an industrial strength password on the access point as far as configuring it, but then I'm only offering free broadband access for those in the neighborhood. I'm not offering complete control.
Okay, so I'm in the US and the UK is different. However, my cousin lives in Birmingham and her first flat had free wireless for all. The owner/landlady ran an open access point and assumed (but did not know for certain) that the people using it lived in her building.
The protocol is designed to disallow casual freeloaders. The person who suffered the theft made no effort to discourage the freeloaders therefore one can only assume they were like me and running an access point tolerant of freeloaders.
Can you fill out a ballot? If the answer is "yes" then you can configure an access point. 'Nuff said.
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How is a person to know what is going on with the access point? I leave my access point open for all who are within range to use. War drivers, check. Neighbors, check. Friends lugging their laptop around, check. They are all welcome to "poach" my wireless.
I do have an industrial strength password on the access point as far as configuring it, but then I'm only offering free broadband access for those in the neighborhood. I'm not offering complete control.
Okay, so I'm in the US and the UK is different. However, my cousin lives in Birmingham and her first flat had free wireless for all. The owner/landlady ran an open access point and assumed (but did not know for certain) that the people using it lived in her building.
The protocol is designed to disallow casual freeloaders. The person who suffered the theft made no effort to discourage the freeloaders therefore one can only assume they were like me and running an access point tolerant of freeloaders.
Can you fill out a ballot? If the answer is "yes" then you can configure an access point. 'Nuff said.