None. I would conclude that it falls into the same category of your cordless phone accidentally picking up your neighbor's conversation. The responsibility should be yours to keep your network private, not your neighbor's responsibility to keep from accidentally tapping in.
Just my opinion. Ward Oldham On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 01:09 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > What is the law concerning using your neighbor's network connection? > ie, > what law are you breaking when your XP machine connects to his linksys > network? > > on 1/4/03 11:13 PM, Henri Yandell at bayard at generationjava.com wrote: > >> >> Yet another reason why XP sucketh. >> >> I tweaked the driver for the wireless card, and finally got it to >> start >> connecting to a wireless router. Surely you can imagine my elation and >> excitement as I found a working Internet! >> >> Except... well... why is the router named 'linksys'?? >> >> Yes. Windows XP will not connect to MY netgear router, but it will >> happily >> [when I'm walking in the right part of the house] connect to my >> neighbour's Linksys network. In fact, as I had DHCP turned on, >> Windows XP >> happily just broke the law for me. >> >> To make it worse, even though I know the unsecured Linksys network is >> there next door, there's no obvious way to avoid connecting to it. >> >> The Apple machines in the house however are happily still working. >> >> -1 to Microsoft for making it automatic to invade my neighbours >> network. >> >> Hen >> >> >> >> | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will >> | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > > Harry, > > > Harry Jacobson-Beyer > Surveyor of the Passing Scene! > > http://bellsouthpwp.net/h/a/harryjb/ > What a strange, long, trip it is! > > remember: it's not how fast you climb the hill that matters, it's how > fast > you go coming down! > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
