http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/20/1620204&from=rss
I like some of the comments:
come here, sweetheart (Score:5, Funny)
by BorgCopyeditor (590345) on Thursday March 20, @02:08PM (#22809124)
You say "no," but your router says "yes."
Re:come here, sweetheart (Score:5, Insightful)
by drooling-dog (189103) on Thursday March 20, @03:16PM (#22810204) Homepage
> You say "no," but your router says "yes."
You were modded "funny", but that's quite literally what is taking
place. Nobody's "stealing" anything; your router is being asked for
permission, and it's not only granting it, it's assisting by providing
an IP address for you to use and telling you where you might find a good
DNS server or two.
Now the owner of that router might say, "But I didn't know it was doing
that on my behalf!" I suppose it's a little like coming home to find
that your kid has been inviting people into your house who you'd rather
not have there. But that's an issue to be settled between you and your
errant kid, isn't it? Law enforcement generally isn't interested.
Since there is no groundswell of outrage from people who are providing
bandwidth to their neighbors - unwittingly or not - you have to assume
that the "victims" here are the ISPs: Comcast, Time-Warner and the like.
That guy who checks his email or the weather using "free" wireless is,
in their eyes, $50 a month in lost revenue. Not that they could possibly
influence legislators in a state like Maryland, of course...
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