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On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 12:06 +1000, Richard Pruss wrote:<BR>
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On 31/05/2010, at 11:12 AM, Noel Butler wrote:
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I see no valid reason as to why they need to do this in the first place. They come across as creepy snoops, it may only be morally wrong to "drive around with full intent to record any and all wireless AP SSID's", but none the less, they should be spanked for it.
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I see a perfectly valid reasons. Google could publish a map of open Wifi nodes. In places where there are no bandwidth Cap; fully open WiFi nodes are common.
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It's considered to be neighbourly to open your WiFi and it some what protects you against government accusations of piracy as who was using the WiFi in
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open WiFi is hard to pin down. In places like that a map is useful. Where can I get open access around here.
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*sigh*<BR>
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Actually, no, that would be a good idea, for when the ACMA run out of money, to easily locate and prosecute the wifi AP operators for operating with a carrier license
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My AP now specifically mentions google, i wont repeat on here what else it says about them tho <IMG SRC="cid:1275343238.16280.3.camel@tardis" ALIGN="middle" ALT=";)" BORDER="0"><BR>
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