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No, because the purpose of putting a WAP in your house is to serve your house. Not your neighbors'.
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Until you can provide a quote from the RFC that uses the word "house" you aren't going to win this argument.
The purpose of a wireless access point is to provide wireless access. Period. Full stop. The word "house" has nothing to do with it. Your WAP advertises its presence. My computer says, "hi! May I have an IP address?" and your WAP says, "sure! Here you go!"
If you want to invent some additional feature that involves just your house, then I want you to go find that requirement in the RFC. Until you do that, I'm right and you're wrong. A WAP is *exactly* like a web server. It's a machine. When you buy it, you take responsibility to configure it to do whatever you want it to do. If you configure it to allow public access, then it's rather stupid of you to be angry that the public accesses it. It's *exactly* like a web server in that regard.
no I'm not.
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What if, instead, they are using your Internet connection and your server for their own purposes, that have nothing to do with you?
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Like what, if I use BAUT to pick up chicks?
Bottom line, if you have a web server, and you configure that web server to listen on port 80 on an IP address on the internet, then it's silly of you to say, "WAIT! I ONLY WANTED PEOPLE IN MY HOUSE TO LOOK AT THIS! MOM!!! HE'S LOOKING AT MY WEB PAGE! MAKE HIM STOP!" The government might come along and say that unless you're a teacher, it is illegal for you to look at any web site on a .edu domain. But if I do it anyway that doesn't make it stealing or hacking.
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If your neighbor's too lazy to lock his car, driving off in it is still stealing.
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That's right it is. But using someone's WAP isn't. Also (because you probably don't know this either) downloading the latest britney spears song isn't stealing. It's copyright violation. It isn't stealing. That doesn't mean it's legal or moral. It just means it isn't stealing.