On Oct 7, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Kurt Cypher wrote:
*Sigh* It can connect with no PW, and it's not like any of you know
where the AE IS.
Based on your most recent post to the LEM Swap list (which a lot of
people on this list are on), I've got a good idea of what city, state
& ZIP (required info in a LEM Swap post) this AE is in. With that
info (and your name), someone might have a decent chance of tracking
down your location more precisely, though that's a lot of work to go
through just to get a little free wifi access, when there are probably
free sources of wifi more readily available.
I find it disgusting that people try to scare us into not trusting
each other. They usually scare us for their own benefit. For example,
our fire department has large signs proclaiming the fire house is a
"Halloween Safe House". The implication is you can't trust your
neighbors. I trust my neighbors. If they need some free wifi access on
me, come on over. You can find my wifi location quick because Google
was nice enough to map it when they drove past with their Google
Street View cameras. Unfortunately, somehow their triangulation method
of WIFI signal strength screwed up and placed my WIFI station about 3
blocks south and 1 block east of where it actually is, which is also
outside the range of the station, so go figure, even Google can't
locate my WIFI. It seems more likely that they purposefully misplaced
it to hedge against the privacy crazies going off on them. What good
is data when it's wrong? And if it's purposefully wrong, yikes. I find
it more spooky that Google's WIFI database has such a bad error than
the idea that my neighbor might use my open network.
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