[opendtv] Re: its a wifi world - Re: Re: Twang's
- From: "Kon" <kon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 09:58:54 -0700
>Obviously I did not get permission. But anyone who installs a WiFi
base station has the option to prevent public access. Many of us
don't bother, because there is no invasion of privacy, UNLESS we try
to hack into other computers via this connection. There is a question
of affecting performance for other users of this base station.
'I had to run to the store, so I borrowed your car. You left the keys in it
and the door was open, so thanks for that. Sorry I delayed you for a few
minutes.'
Criminal! This user pays for his service, which you were using. It is most
likely that his provider does not have an agreement with him to provide
service for 3rd parties. So you're breaking his service contract.
Sending packets through his connection is an invasion of privacy. We've
already seen a case where an AP owner was busted for trafficking kiddie porn
-- and it turned out some madman was parked outside in a car using his AP.
Not hacking his system, but using his connection. This type of stuff is
extremely difficult to disprove ('it wasn't me officer, honest!'), unless
you can trace back MAC addresses and packet headers as a minimum.
Actually come to think of it - even using an open AP without the owner
knowing is considered hacking, passive as it may be. You don't have to do
any work since its automated, but automation is possible for anything.
Community efforts where users offer their AP access for gratis use are
usually identified through their SSID being labeled as such (FREE, PUBLIC,
etc.). Let me guess, this poor and clueless soul's AP was labeled 'linksys'
or some other default factory-issued name.
We ran into one of these techno-illiterates at Frys in Las Vegas - she was
buying an AP for her son. 'I just plug it in, right?' 'Yep, but you will
want to turn WEP on' 'Who?'. Oh the horror. Maybe you were using hers?
>The decision whether to protect a node is primarily one of business
model. There were a bunch of paid WiFi nets operating at NAB.
But it still doesn't give you any right to access it.
>And as stated earlier, we bought a base station the next morning so
that we would not need to share.
'I stopped taking furniture from the house the next morning. I even gave
some pieces back, since we already had a laz-boy and had no space for a
second one'.
>who control TV preventing it. If I need the latest weather forecast I
don't go to the TV anymore; it is easier and faster to get it via the
Internet.
Now that's debatable - esp. if you were at NAB and had a datacast receiver
tuned to KLVX. :)
>different yet that that of his parents. One to many is being
augmented with personalized communications. Kids do not sit down to
watch TV for hours anymore; they may have the TV on while they are
playing with their PS2 or surfing the net.
Information overload is what it is...
>And speaking of irrelevant...seems that the current model of a TV
station is becoming antiquated in a world dominated by multi-channel
distribution. Not my words...this is what broadcasters were saying to
one another at NAB.
No disagreement there at all. The best indicator of this is when the station
engineer tells you 'yeah we have this stuff, but I have DBS at home,
really'.
>Did you hear about the press conference at NAB where Emmis announced
an initiative to pool broadcast spectrum to compete with cable and
DBS - they had about a dozen broadcast groups supporting the
announcement.
They finally figured out that the old model doesn't make money any longer?
:)
Cheers
Kon
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