washpost discovers the obvious

[keith morse]

David Bandel wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 17:00:33 -0500, Matthew Carpenter <matt at eisgr.com> wrote:
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>>Humorous story.  A friend I work with was going to visit his
>>father-in-law to help set up his wireless network since he just got DSL
>>with a new broadbant/wireless router.  My friend gets a call and his
>>father-in-law suggests he come over if he wants, they'll have a
>>cup-o-joe, but the wireless was already set up.  When my friend asked
>>how, his FIL replied "I don't know, I think the DSL technician must have
>>set if up for me.  I just plugged in the wireless card and I'm on the
>>Internet..."
>>My friend did make the trip, and after visiting for a while he looked at
>>the router/wap.  It turns out, nothing was set up.  He had never
>>actually connected to the Internet...  Thanks to "plug-and-play"
>>security philosophy his FIL had been connecting to the neighbor's WAP
>>and using his Internet access :)
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> I've heard this story before ...
> 

Sadly, I know of two people who depend on this for the internet 
connectivity.