Henri, if you want to you can tell them how to secure their network so
that folks can't tap into it.
Jerry
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 01:13 AM, Ward Oldham wrote:
> 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>.
>
>
>
| The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will
| be January 28. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
