Free Wireless
Heh now this was an accident.
In Hamilton and bootup my laptop. It starts up and MSN Messenger logs in (which is what I needed it for – to talk to a techie) and I start chatting. Also open up e-mail and web etc.
Only after an hour or so do I remember that I never connected to the Internet. I don’t recall plugging into a LAN or using the data card. I check and nope my Vodafone data card wasn’t how I was connected as I never opened it up.
So how am I on the Internet?
I check the wireless connection and sure enough someone has an unsecured wireless called “linksys” and as that is a default name I have connected to before, it connected me up without even checking.
So thanks to someone in Hamilton for an hour’s Internet. It was an accident!
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January 17th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
At least you’ve apologised for being a socialist for an hour.
January 17th, 2008 at 5:28 pm
Be careful doing that; a dodgy wireless owner might start sniffing the traffic you’re sending across which would have privacy implications. I prefer IM networks like Google Talk because you have the option of encrypting the entire connection.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
The chances of that are pretty slim.
January 17th, 2008 at 7:58 pm
http://www.911blogger.com/node/13392 :O
January 17th, 2008 at 10:40 pm
So if the person who you filtched time from fronts up, are you going to pay for the time used?
[DPF: Good God how desperate are you to try and score a point. Pathethic. Time based accounts went out oh around 1,000 years ago in Internet time. Almost all charging is data based now. Now if someone can prove it was their wireless I was on, I'm happy to pay them 25c for the 5 MB or so I used.]
January 17th, 2008 at 11:45 pm
DPF: assuming they didn’t want to treat their hub as a free access point. Which is not too unlikely given the unlocked connection , free spirited and generous nature of the left wing contributors on this blog.
January 17th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
“being a socialist for an hour.”
As he was living off of the labour of others, surely he was just being a good capitalist!
January 18th, 2008 at 8:52 am
DPF. Nice bite.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:13 am
I am essentially a right winger… but I believe in open source mantras and ideals like free shared Internet; this is not purely an Ideology of the left.
Sharing your internet is really a personal choice that transcends left or right wing politics… in fact it is probably more related to weather or not you are a nice person (want to) and/or a rich person (can afford to). As most left wingers would have you believe that those two concepts are mutually exclusive it nicely proves my point.
On a technical note I have found that as I have in the past done a lot of access point testing (usually on new unsecured AP’s) my laptop is forever picking up others unsecured AP’s too.