[cynwoody]

BS. WiFi has built-in security. All you have to do is turn it on. If you don't, then, obviously, you are providing a public access point. More power to you (until the black helicopters descend because of that email you sent to eop.gov.).

[trebb]

BS. WiFi has built-in security. All you have to do is turn it on. If you don't, then, obviously, you are providing a public access point.

By that reasoning, it should be perfectly fine for anyone to intercept and listen to your cell phone conversations.

[bert]

Exactly. By not turning on the safeguards you are tacitly permitting access and use.

The judge is hearing the case perhaps to set just such a precedent.

[virgil]

My sister has a wirless router on her computer. There’s a kid in the neighborhood who will come late at night-early morning and sit out on the porch and will use her router connection to use his blackberry internet or whatever it is. Is this the same thing? We don’t like it, because we don’t know what he’s viewing (it could be child porn for all we know) Is there something on the router to stop that?