On Fri, March 14, 2008 2:09 pm, DJA wrote: > > You had the luxury of knowing who that AP belonged to. That's the > exceptional case.
It took me 3 apartments to find the right one. Not that difficult. > > Sure, but some here would consider all those checking their email > (usually a dumb thing to over unsecured wifi) at that meeting to be > thieves. As SJS said, "Ludicrous!". > It is, no doubt. > "Don't know, don't use" may be a practice claimed to be demanded by > some, but for instance, I have not personally been informed by anyone of > authority that it's okay for me to use the County's Wifi at the KPLUG > meetings. But because I see lots of others doing it, it's not > unreasonable for me to assume that it is okay. Maybe that assumption is > improper and that I should ask. But I'll bet I'm not the only one who is > ignorant on that point, but has used it anyway. > Personally, I'd ask whoever was in charge of the meeting. If they say it's ok, then I consider it ok. I'm not asking so I can stay "legal", merely to be polite. > > My point is, how far does one have to go to determine when any given > open AP is okay to use? As far as you feel is proper. Most people seem to go by the open AP = open Access rule. I think differently, so I take on the burden of double-checking. It does me no harm to do so and may avert a misunderstanding. -ajb -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
