My garage is on my property. You have to come over to use it. See the
difference?
So, if you're asleep and don't know I'm there, I'm not trespassing?
They have to trespass onto my property to do so. If I continually put my
trashcan on my neighbour's property, I shouldn't be surprised if it gets
filled (or thrown though my window). However, if my neighbor empties his
trashcan onto my property, and I find something useful in the trash,
guess what? I keep it.
I tried to be specific in saying it was garbage night, your trashcan is on
the curb. Once it is there it is no longer on your property. (technically,
the trash is then public property and you can take what you want anyway.)
My point is you're paying for a service that it is understood, in modern
society, that everyone has to food the bill for. I admire your generosity
and wish I lived next door to you. It would save be about 100 bucks a
quarter. And I guess I'd get free Wifi to boot. What a deal!
Have you actually ever used Wifi?
Constantly, but I guess I use one of those new fangled, complicated
operating systems where I actually get to figure out what it's doing at
any given time.
Let's see: on my XO I see a little circle. I click on it. I'm connected.
I don't even know where it's at, let alone who's AP it is. For all I
know if might be an intentionally public hotspot. How do I tell?
Do you live above a Starbucks? I would presume you turn on your wireless
because you have your own home network, or do you just assume someone
nearby will always have an open network available to you?
The real neighborly thing to do would be to say "Hey, you know you're AP
is running wide open such that I can use it, and I'd suggest that if you
don't want me or anyone else to use it, you'd better secure it.
Otherwise I'm going to continue using it, and I thank you in advance for
your kind generosity. Want a beer?".
EXACTLY what I meant by 'opportunity for education', which I guess is
really what I'm getting at. 'What's the harm if they don't know' is always
a bad argument (and why I jumped into this thread when I did.) I have no
problem going over to a neighbor to tell them they have an insecure
network. I'm not the kind of guy to then use that network, but if you do
your due diligence and your neighbor has no problem paying for your
network connectivity, then go right ahead. A bona fide 'something for
nothing' situation.
-Matt
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