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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Obviously, if every stranger who came into your house did so just to use the bathroom, there'd be no reason to discuss the point. If whatever they were doing was hurting or robbing someone, however, it would be a different matter. How would you react, for instance, if you knew people were using your WiFi network to download child porn, or to coordinate a robbery or attack on your neighbor?
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About the same if I found out they were using my bathroom to flush their drugs or aborted fetuses. Upset to say the least. However, if I had a guest in my house who was using my internet connection to download porn or attack a neighbor, or was using the bathroom for illegal purposes, it would be much the same.
Of course, I am in an unusual situation in that no one in their right mind is going to drive out into the middle of nowhere just to get a free wifi connection. They would spend more on gas getting here than they would paying for the connection. I think it is more of a problem in areas where there is a higher concentration of people.
It is sad to hear of people who would knowingly jam up a neighbor's paid for connection by piggybacking on it and then dare the neighbor to stop them. In this small valley, we tend to be protective of our neighbors and would never think about doing something like that to them. I'll give you an example ... the other day, I noticed that one of my neighbor's garage door was open .. in the middle of the day, when no one should be there. So, I walked over there, checked to see if the door from the garage into the house was open (it was), so I walked in to see if anyone was home (no one was). Next step was to call the neighbor at work and find out if the garage door was supposed to be open or not .... and then closed it when I found out it wasn't.
I mean ... here, I've got keys to nearly all the houses around me. They all have my key. Anyone who drives all the way out here is either going to be a friend or relative of someone who lives here, or they are contractors doing work for them (and who have probably done work for me). It's just a different world view .... very very different from when I was living in an urban setting.
Oh, and not with regard to you post, but another .... it is not a violation of my terms of service to allow other people to use my internet connection. Where there might be a problem would be, as Steve noted, if someone used my connection for an illegal purpose. And, as noted, because I live out in the middle of freaking nowhere, that's just not that likely to happen.