Worth a mention:

http://www.iesc.org/geekcorps

Mod parent up.

It's not an *attack*.

That is all.

At least quadruple your hourly rate-- if not more. Your IP is yours. If they want it, make them pay. Otherwise-- you'll get nothing out of this, they'll exploit you, nothing more. That's all there is to it.

Seriously? No cyber-dildo-dentata option? C'mon, /.! Read Gibson!

Aie, you'da bloody well loved double DST during the Blitz, mate. Back when we'da shot whiners like you, except we needed the cannon fodder.

You are aware than less than 1.5% of the US lives on farms, right?

There's a WiFi transmitter within 100 miles of that dish, with nothing but plain air separating, at least 14 hours a day.

Read the FCC regs. No one is authorized to complain, and you must accept interference. Don't know if the zone trumps that, but you're telling me that no plane with WiFi flies within 200 miles? There's BS here, somewhere.

#1 is an isolated incident which is not representative. It was also widely publicized and led to several rulings saying that IPs did not identify individuals.

Re #2, you have failed to show that Cox or any ISP has actually enforced their scare clause, or that it is a legally enforcable contractual clause.

That is all.

I'll grant you 3 as reasonable. I think 1 and 2 are not; I think they're spreading Fear, Uncertainly, and Doubt. You don't have a reasonable basis for 1 and 2, and you're too much of a coward to find out. I'm not a coward. If an ISP wants to try to shut off my service due to unconscionable terms in their TOS, they can do so, I'll get another ISP, and they'll get a lawsuit.

Stepping back into the real world, there is no evidence that #1 or #2 have every happened in enough numbers to worry. I'm more likely to get hit by a car crossing the street in 10 minutes from now. Fearing less likely events is absurd.

PP is a lie. Yes, this happened to *one* person. It wasn't as bad as the PP said. Over and done with.

Hmm. Belkin. Linksys. These are a few companies, that have guest defaults on routers, out-of-the-box.

See above. SFLan guy here, operated a wide variety of open APs since '97 or. No problems with TOS, because those TOS are unenforceable. I'd love if some ISP would try to enforce: that's why I've got an EFF lawyer's phone # in my contacts. They won't. So you're FUD, just FUD, simply FUD.

SFLan guy here. I've operated open APs since '97 or so. No problems. Period. FUD. You're spreading FUD.