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MadCat · 2010-05-05, 08:11 AM

More a matter of using what's available - if you've got a banner on the side of your house proclaiming you like Obama, so what if I send you a mailer promoting him? After all, you put the information out there, so now it's in the public domain.

People that are worried that Google records the existance of their home WiFi should take a good hard look at themselves and then do one of two things: if you left your wireless open or secured with a weak WEP password, you should go have a cup of STFU, because you are in no position to talk. If you took the proper security measures such as using WPA2, having your wireless access point do MAC filtering so only your own machines can connect; then you can talk and complain. However, people that have done the latter are generally aware of the fact that WiFi is an ether-transmitted medium and as such -can be sniffed, recorded, located, and otherwise spotted-, and know it doesn't make one iota of difference how much complaining is done, that shit done don't change.

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2010-05-05, 08:11 AM	#5
MadCat If something's hard to do, then it's not worth doing Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Berlin, Germany Posts: 247	More a matter of using what's available - if you've got a banner on the side of your house proclaiming you like Obama, so what if I send you a mailer promoting him? After all, you put the information out there, so now it's in the public domain. People that are worried that Google records the existance of their home WiFi should take a good hard look at themselves and then do one of two things: if you left your wireless open or secured with a weak WEP password, you should go have a cup of STFU, because you are in no position to talk. If you took the proper security measures such as using WPA2, having your wireless access point do MAC filtering so only your own machines can connect; then you can talk and complain. However, people that have done the latter are generally aware of the fact that WiFi is an ether-transmitted medium and as such -can be sniffed, recorded, located, and otherwise spotted-, and know it doesn't make one iota of difference how much complaining is done, that shit done don't change. </rant> __________________ What's blue and not heavy?