Posts by ed2020

Re: Not this again

That's a bit of a flawed analogy. What this is more like is standing at your bedroom window, shouting how you murdered someone while a BBC camera crew is standing next door. In this situation, you cant really then complain when your 'broadcasts' get captured by a third party.

In the example you give the person shouting from their bedroom window should expect somebody to overhear - even if nobody is actively trying to do so. This is not in any way the same as somebody running an unsecured wireless network - to capture and retain that information requires somebody trying to do so.

It's not my analogy that's flawed, it's yours.

I am not arguing that running an unsecured wireless network is in any way sensible, but many people do so and do not expect people to be slurping their traffic as a result.

Re: Not this again

No, because that's theft (although their insurance company may argue negligence).

Okay, maybe it would be a fairer comparison if I'd referred to somebody walking in and having a nose around? Either way the lack of security is unintentional and it is not reasonable to assume the network owner (or householder, in my example) is happy for people to be snooping around.

Re: Not this again

It's more like complaining that people are eavsdropping when shouting down a cellphone on the train.

No, it isn't. Shouting down a cellphone on a train means people can hardly avoid overhearing and it's reasonable to assume the person on the phone doesn't expect privacy. Slurping unencrypted network traffic requires a conscious effort and it is reasonable to assume that the owner of the network isn't expecting people to be listening in.

Re: Not this again

By that logic you presumably also believe that people who occasionally forget to lock their cars/houses deserve everything they get as well.

Just because something isn't secured doesn't mean it's okay for anyone who feels like it to wander in and collect whatever they fancy.

Re: When does thing launch again?

Eh? In English please?

"I'll be the last person in the country to have one..."

Don't bet on it. I'm competing for that title as well.

Re. "Re : Shoemenders"

If that's what you consider to be a satisfactory root cause analysis then fair enough. I don't.

And if that is the RCA then reinstalling Windows seems like an interesting way to "resolve" the problem.

Cobblers

Windows very rarely *needs* reinstalling to rectify a problem. In fact most of the time reinstalling is a particularly bad way of problem solving because even though it may fix the problem you still don't know what caused it.