Am Fr 28. März 2008 schrieb Alexey Feldgendler: > On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:27:56 +0100, Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > I really would love WLAN to scavenge open connections as well at the > > same time (Holger mentioned this idea but I already cherished it). So > > if you walk down a street and you didn't have Internet connection for a > > while, it keeps seeing new APs each scan and on the basis it deduces you > > are moving, it can increase the frequency of waking for scan and trying > > for association and DHCP on anything it finds, update mail and rss, > > maybe alert you it scored a connection. > > One has to be careful about that. IANAL, but it might be illegal in some > countries to use someone's private network even if it's left unencrypted > (compare: if an apartment door is left unlocked, it doesn't mean that it's > ok for everyone to come in). Also, in many public places you'll get a page > telling you that you have to pay or log in instead of any web page you > request, and it can confuse the RSS parser, screw up page caches etc.
Agree, no good idea to unsolicitedly use unknown WLANs. Also (and first of all) for security reasons. jOERG _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
