"Glenn Ashmore" wrote in
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There is also a growing number of unsecured APs sprouting up all over
the islands. Last week in a 2 mile drive along Ridge Road in Tortola
my Net Stumbler discovered over 50 unsecured APs with usable signal.
Seems like every villa is installing an access point and just leaving
them up even when the place is vacant. Not saying you should
constantly piggyback on an AP uninvited but if you really need to make
a call it is possible almost anywhere.



While I'm very proud of all of you who feel guilty in some way of using
someone else's wifi, I don't think you need be. If they don't want you
to use it, they simply WEP protect it, which is like locking your house
to keep the public from using your bathroom. The serious hacker is going
to use your WEP-protected wifi, anyway, and that's where to draw the
line.

My wifi is open to the public. Many of the boys in the barracks at CAFB
are using my bandwidth because I put the wifi hotspot 50' up the tree
outside in an inverted plastic bucket to increase range with a high-
powered hotspot and high gain, space diversity antennas. They, in turn,
have built Pringle's can 2400 Mhz antennas and stuck them on the roof.
If I need my bandwidth I simply unplug that open router from the main
router while I need it. If there's an attack, and there has been, I
leave it offline for a week or two until the attacker gives up.

Anyone leaving an open wifi port is, as far as I know, leaving his wifi
as an open hotspot, a public service to the rest of us. You should leave
yours open so anyone needing bandwidth can get it within a half block of
your house, unless it becomes a bandwidth hog from someone abusing your
good deed. If everyone did this, everyone with wifi would benefit as
there would be so much bandwidth across a city there would be no need of
companies selling bandwidth, sucking the blood of all of us. How stupid
it is we all live like hermits protecting our turf with sticks.

As a side benefit of the open wifi hotspot, government bureaucrats hell
bent on tracking every byte from you to anywhere now have a problem.
"Your honor, a direct connection from this person's IP address to
timbucktoo.com was noted by our government spy computers many times over
the last 12 months."....the prosecuting bureaucrat explains with that
goddamned smirk on his face. "Ladies and Gentlemen of the JURY, Mr.
Soandso has, as a public service, an open wifi hotspot accessable by
anyone who is within radio range of his home. It could have been anyone
connecting to his free hotspot that connected his IP to timbucktoo.com,
so what the government bureaucrats have recorded in their snooping means
nothing." Would you convict him? Of course not...which is why
government snoopers are terrified of open wifi hotspots rendering their
snooping useless to prosecute.....(c; You become an internet provider,
which puts you under the same protection laws as Comcast and Bell$outh,
unresponsible for what flows through your system you're providing free.

It's why the FCC doesn't allow you to have a 25 watt wifi router with a 5
mile range.....(c; It's about "control", same as always.

Using anyone's open wifi hotspot is NOT a sin-of-the-flesh.....Help
yourself. Use mine SSID W4CSC



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