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Default Wi-Fi under way and at anchor

On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 04:26:27 -0700 (PDT), Flying Pig
wrote:

Dave Skolnick is on a mighty charger, let alone a horse, to say that it's WRONG - JUST WRONG - to log onto any open signal
to which you personally have not been specifically invited by the owner...


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Perhaps so, but it can easily happen by accident/happenstance. Most
of my PCs are set up to automatically log onto my home or boat network
when they boot up, no specific action required. If my home network
had a SYSID of "linksys", "netgear" or one of the other popular
defaults, they would connect to any unencrypted network they found
with that same ID. People who choose to leave their router set to a
default SYSID for one reason or another will generally not use a
password or encryption either.