[TheForge] Wireless internet connection - OT from blacksmithing

[Mike]

Jerry> My local ISP threaten me, when I tried to access my email via
Jerry> telnet.

What?!  Do you have a contract that says you must use only web mail
and forbids POP3?  If you open a POP3 connection via telnet instead of
some mail client, that's just your choice of client.  I do it a few
times a year to delete some unwanted messages with multi-megabyte
attachments that I don't want to download over dialup.  Jeez, that's
how the net *works*.

And that exemplifies the risk with piggy-backing on some neighbor's
wifi, even with his consent.  Too many people, LEOs, lawyers, judges
and legislators among them, don't have any notion of how the net works
and mostly don't think they need to know.  They know what they want,
though.  If you do something that a major corporation *doesn't want
you to do* and the major corporation happens to notice you doing it,
their highly paid legal team will most probably be able to persuade a
DA and a judge that what you have done is a crime or a tort, an
intrusion, an attack, a theft or whatever.

Well, not the place for a prolonged rant. Apologies for excessive OT.


- Mike

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