Comments on: Linux Wireless Morals

By: Owen

Owen — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 19:10:36 +0000

@Aaron haha I totally agree with that one. Thanks for the comment!

By: Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com

Aaron at FullTiltBlogging.com — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 15:10:25 +0000

I don’t think it’s wrong to “borrow” someone else’s wifi, I do, however, draw the line at borrowing someone else’s wifey.

Great blog Owen.

By: Owen

Owen — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 14:42:20 +0000

Its not criminal intent but rather to protect my information such as website cookies and sessions for sites that I log into from other prying eyes. I would rather not log into Facebook or send my POP password over clear text if I were using a public access point. I’d rather know that when my iwconfig is set to connect to any that I have a way to securely access sensitive information.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:08:56 +0000

In my view if someone has an unencrypted network they are usually not smart enough to know whos using it or dont care. So I would consider that a public access point. But if you feel you have to go through measures to hide your identity then obviously you feel you are doing something wrong and as such shouldnt be doing it at all. By using countermeasures to hide your identity you are simply making prosecution easier by showing criminal intent.

By: Diazamet

Diazamet — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 10:30:46 +0000

Rather than set up Squid, you could just use ‘ssh -D’ which will treat your SSH connection as a SOCKS proxy.