Comments on: The Piggybacking Epidemic http://techliberation.com/2007/04/18/the-piggybacking-epidemic/ Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology Sat, 26 May 2012 17:40:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Hank Miller http://techliberation.com/2007/04/18/the-piggybacking-epidemic/comment-page-1/#comment-50930 Hank Miller Fri, 20 Apr 2007 02:55:36 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/04/18/the-piggybacking-epidemic/#comment-50930 <p>Just for the record, my access point at my house is left open for anyone to use. It isn't that I can't secure it, it is that I have decided to give away some of the bandwidth that I have purchased.<br><br>Now I am taking a risk - someone might abuse it (download too much, child porn, planning a crime, etc). However I consider the risk low.<br><br>All I ask is that if you use my access point, you open up your access point at your house just in case I happen to need internet access in your town.</p> Just for the record, my access point at my house is left open for anyone to use. It isn’t that I can’t secure it, it is that I have decided to give away some of the bandwidth that I have purchased.

Now I am taking a risk – someone might abuse it (download too much, child porn, planning a crime, etc). However I consider the risk low.

All I ask is that if you use my access point, you open up your access point at your house just in case I happen to need internet access in your town.

]]> By: Hank Miller http://techliberation.com/2007/04/18/the-piggybacking-epidemic/comment-page-1/#comment-37993 Hank Miller Fri, 20 Apr 2007 01:55:36 +0000 http://techliberation.com/2007/04/18/the-piggybacking-epidemic/#comment-37993 <p>Just for the record, my access point at my house is left open for anyone to use. It isn't that I can't secure it, it is that I have decided to give away some of the bandwidth that I have purchased.</p> <p>Now I am taking a risk - someone might abuse it (download too much, child porn, planning a crime, etc). However I consider the risk low.</p> <p>All I ask is that if you use my access point, you open up your access point at your house just in case I happen to need internet access in your town.</p> Just for the record, my access point at my house is left open for anyone to use. It isn’t that I can’t secure it, it is that I have decided to give away some of the bandwidth that I have purchased.

Now I am taking a risk – someone might abuse it (download too much, child porn, planning a crime, etc). However I consider the risk low.

All I ask is that if you use my access point, you open up your access point at your house just in case I happen to need internet access in your town.

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