"Flying Pig" wrote in message
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That premise was what I got out of one of my cited articles.
Yet the learned Dave Skolnick says that's patently untrue - that,
unlike a cell connection, WiFi enabled devices require specific
input from the user before a connection will be made.

Not true. Mine connects when I turn on the computer. I push the computer's
"ON" button and a few minutes later I'm connected to an available wi-fi
hotspot. Some, like McDonald's require me to click an "accept" button for the
TOS and then I'm on but unsecured networks don't even need that.

Those with a different experience could do me a favor by
logging into either the G+ or the FB conversation thread on the
subject and disabuse him of that notion, because, not owning
such a device myself, I can't, at least with any authority. He
asserts that Wired has its head up its ass and is mistaken.
That would be surprising to me, given that it's a techie
publication, BICBW...

The preceding, clipped, discussion about theft is left out here;
as seen in my original, there's some conflict about it. However,
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...

Duh, this Skolnick is a moron. The fact that the network in not secured
is, itself, an invite for any and all to join. If somebody doesn't want you
to join their network they will password protect it.

If I had a home network near a harbor I would install a nice amplified
antenna like this one on my router.

http://www.radiolabs.com/products/wireless/waverv.php

And not require a password so boaters could use it to connect to the
Internet. So this idiot Skolnick is trying to say neither I nor anybody else
can do so and that in doing so I'm creating criminals and thieves.

Nonsense! The man's a PUTZ!


Wilbur Hubbard