On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, John Runberg wrote: > BTW, many ISPs restrict customers from giving away access onto the > customers node through WiFi or other means. Cox for awhile even tried to > prevent people from setting up a router so that mulitple computers could > access from home. Stupid, but true. Some ISPs also expressly allow this. I see no moral issue in using an open access point *if* it's deliberately open. Someone is still paying for the bandwidth (the person providing the open node.) It's up to them to sort out the legality of it with their ISP -- presumably they have a copy of the subscriber agreement they signed that states whether or not they have a right to do what they're doing. I don't think it's morally right to take advantage of someone who is unknowingly providing an open node, though, any more than it's morally right to make phone calls on a neighbor's insecure cordless telephone.
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