wireless access point

[David A. Bandel]

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On Thu, 22 Jan 2004 08:14:34 +0100
Roger Oberholtzer <roger at opq.se> wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 15:50:08 -0600
> Gary <gv-list-linuxsxs at mygirlfriday.info> wrote:
> 
> > There was a story about this recently, in Canada I believe, where
> > they finally caught up with a kiddy porn guy or group who was using
> > wireless access of others.... guess who they came after first...
> 
> Same with anonymous ftp. We had a user in Germany copying things from
> sites out there to our site, and then from ours to his. So, of course,
> it looked like we were copying the things. Oddly, the files I
> intercepted seemed to be mp3s of German marching music. Very odd. And
> even more disturbing. We noticed it because our bandwidth was oddly
> getting very slim. So, we turned off ftp in general.

This is why anonymous ftp upload is write-only (no read) and the
sysadmin reviews it before moving it to the appropriate public directory
for download.  Sheesh.

Open APs are a bad idea.  Unfortunately, tens of thousands of Windoze
lusers turn them on and have no clue (windoze lusers, no clue --
redundant, no?).  Windoze should be banned from the Internet.  Period. 
Bet 100% of my spam would then go bye-bye and I wouldn't need to buy a
T-1 connection for 256k of legitimate (non-virus/non-spam) traffic.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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