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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The device certainly IS yours. Hack away.
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sure, but then you contradict yourself:
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The 3G network that was being subverted for purposes never intended, however, was very much NOT 'yours.' Not even remotely. There's a difference.
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Possession makes no significant difference to the use. It matters more
who has what usage rights, not who owns what bit of wire.
A driver might use a rental car to go grocery shopping, or to go to a restaurant. The usage makes no difference as long as the car is returned in the specified condition. Let's not try to control someones lifestyle in a misguided effort to control a different variable.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
The free 3G service was for THAT device's limited use ... not for every Tom, Dick, and seedbox people were tethering to them.
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What you're endorsing is like putting a prohibition on 1 pint beer glasses in an attempt to stop DUIs (when someone can get just as wasted if the beer comes from shot glasses). It's both more effective and easier to enforce consumption and/or blood alcohol levels. Likewise, it's both more effective and trivial to enforce a
consumption limit -- let's not take a gestapo approach and dictate insignificant personal choices. Otherwise you needlessly restrict one variable, and fail to actually address the variable that needs to be controlled.
It's absolutely foolish to dictate how the packets are produced or used. I don't give a rats ass how someone generates or reads a packet - just how much traffic they add to the congestion and whether a packet is malicious.
Live and let live.