Wi-Fi related arrest in Illinois

[converge]

If I'm sitting somewhere, and my windows box decides that it finds a network that looks fun to check out, I'm going to let it connect.

Discussing merits is one thing in relation to a general populous of ignorance, but bragging about not having control over your own box? ... that doesn't serve help your argument. get a grip on your own interfaces yo, knowledge cancels innocense and brings obligation.

[Beacon 11]

...bragging about not having control over your own box? ... that doesn't serve help your argument. get a grip on your own interfaces yo, knowledge cancels innocense and brings obligation.

Hahaha, that's not what I meant you dude :P . If you think about it for a second, Windows won't connect automatically to a wireless connection unless a) it has been previously connected to said connection, b) I haven't removed it from the driver's memory, and c) it's set to automatically connect to that particular connection. So really, what I said made no sense in any way/shape/form, so maybe I should go back and edit my own comment :D .
"Knowledge cancels innocence and brings obligation."... I like that man, very true!

[Deviant Ollam]

Windows won't connect automatically to a wireless connection unless ... it's set to automatically connect to that particular connection.

not necessarily. while the windows O/S won't automatically connect unless you tell it to, many WiFi cards nowadays have totally shit-ass drivers and management software that attempt to do all the thinking for the user. i've seen some Intel brand adapters (mostly hardware that's built-in to laptops) which will connect automatically to any WiFi points that they even remotely recognize, whether or not the user has asked for this "feature" to be enabled.

Rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed it… If a lock… is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is to the interest of honest persons to know this fact, because the dishonest are… certain to apply the knowledge practically… the spread of the knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance.

if you're going to use my old sig text verbatim, at least include the original citation, as well... this quote is from A.C Hobbs's book Locks and Safes: The Construction of Locks, edited by Charles Tomlinson and published by Virtue & Co., London, 1853 (revised 1868).