On Thursday, June 27, 2002, at 12:14 , Jeff M wrote:
> I'll heartily agree that sharing bandwidth with computers not in your > household (up to whatever number they "allow") is against the TOS. > HOWEVER: > > 802.11b access point != sharing bandwidth > > It is entirely possible the access point is restricted to be used only > by > its owner, therefore they'd better have some better evidence than the > mere > existence of an access point before pulling service because someone has > one. Such as a demonstrated ability to log into the net through that > access point. Short of that, they haven't proven breach of contract. To gather that evidence they will have likely to attempt to access the network which is probably breaking a law or two. I can think of a way to do this without breaking the law and without any attempt to access someone else's machines and network but since it would be passive accuracy would suffer. Has anyone had a lawyer write a letter asking exactly how they determined that the specific AP was on the cable modem network? It may be a good start if someone wants to cause some trouble. In fact one can probably make the case that even associating with an AP entails two way communication and some level of authentication between the client and AP so it breaks the law. Not that I actually believe that but I do think a good lawyer could make the case. Cliff -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
