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Originally Posted by SeanF
Nope, not explicit. And this, again, is the problem with your server analogy.
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It is NOT an analogy. Both a web server and your linksys are servers. That's not an analogy. They're the same thing. They're equal. You have no answer for this argument.
Sure, maybe the law makes it a felony to access one and OK to access the other. That doesn't make it stealing. Nor does it make it morally wrong. Where I live, the law says it's illegal to sell alcohol on Sunday. That doesn't mean that doing so is murder.
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Is a server and the service it offers is wireless internet. It advertises itself by broadcasting an SAN. Your computer asks it for an IP, and it gives one out - oh look! it's also a DHCP server!
Accessing it may be illegal. It may also be illegal to marry outside your race. That's completely irrelevant to the question at hand. The question is, is it stealing to connect to a server. The answer is no.
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People put a WAP in their home intending it for their own use all the time.
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Ignorance of technology is not my problem. The fact is, it's a server, exactly like a web server. It is neither stealing nor hacking to access that server.
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That they did not change the default settings on that WAP can not be presumed to give you permission to use it.
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Tell me, who gave you permission to access bautforum.com? You pointed your web browser to this address. Your browser looked up an IP address. Your browser sent an HTTP request to port 80. The web server responded. The response of the web server is your permission. If they were to whine about how you hacked into BAUT or stole their bandwidth, we'd all have a good laugh.