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Not that you're wrong, but all of the things you mention should be illegal to force onto people. No device should be able to force themselves onto a data connec
by unethical_ban 5y ago
Not that you're wrong, but all of the things you mention should be illegal to force onto people. No device should be able to force themselves onto a data connection without consent.
- kllrnohj 5y agoIt's not only should be illegal it is actually illegal. Open wifi doesn't grant or imply authorization, and accessing a network without authorization is a crime
- 20after4 5y agoAnd yet my phone, in it's default state, will automatically connect to random open wifi that happens to be available in order to access the internet.
- Brian_K_White 5y agoIsn't that what that Amazon low bandwidth shared wireless thing does explicitly? It's not normal wifi but it provides public access to the internet via your hardware and your internet connection. Also don't a lot of cable modems have public wifi served from the equipment in your posession but not under your control or even knowledge? It's a seperate logical network but it's still your net connection and your (rented) hardware. Cars these days also have 4g connections that you can't even turn off even if you don't pay for the service like on-star. Probably there are countless examples by now of things coming with their own access, and the idea of opportunistic scanning for open networks vs, or in addition to an own 3g/4g modem is just an implementation detail.