RE: Wireless Security

["David Gillett" <gillettdavid () fhda edu>]

>   I deal all the time with a user population that thinks an 
> open jack is an invitation to plug in their laptop and start 
> downloading porn and MP3s, and that a jack with a computer 
> plugged into it can be freely converted to an open jack by 
> unplugging the machine that's there.  And they assume that 
> wireless they can connect to is wireless they're entitled to use.
>   They clearly don't make the analogy you're suggesting -- or 
> if they do, Western Civilization is DOOMED.
>
> ====> How is Western Civilization "doomed" if people start to 
> respect other's property???

  Not what I meant.  If people consider walking into an unlocked
house analogous to plugging into an open jack, they're hardly 
"respecting property" -- just the opposite!

David Gillett