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Where do you live? In the two major US cities where I've lived, I consistently find that wireless networks are passworded, don't work, or just show a paywall.
by graue 14y ago
Where do you live? In the two major US cities where I've lived, I consistently find that wireless networks are passworded, don't work, or just show a paywall.
In 2005 I could find random apartment-dwellers with open wifi, but things have changed. Even cafes use passwords to make sure you bought something there.
- batista 14y agoYou could buy something once then, and the other days just re-use the password from outside the cafe.
- lutusp 14y agoYes, you could do that, but it would clearly be fraud. I visited a town in Alaska this summer that had a McDonald's with an open hub -- no password. I asked about it, and the proprietor said it was open to attract people to his business, and he didn't care that some people cheated, especially because the cheaters needed to gather around his place of business (to get adequate signal strength), making it look popular and attracting paying customers. But a hub that has a password is a different story. In that case, you can't claim not to know the behavior is fraud.