From: "Bob" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2900519 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:15 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1Mnyji-0006Ol-P4 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:13 -0400 Received: from relay02.pair.com ([209.68.5.16]:4321) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Mnyjd-0001lB-00 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:56:05 -0400 Received: (qmail 63944 invoked from network); 16 Sep 2009 17:56:03 -0000 Received: from 173.51.152.222 (HELO Saturn.home) (173.51.152.222) by relay02.pair.com with SMTP; 16 Sep 2009 17:56:03 -0000 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A010208.4AB126B5.005D,ss=1,fgs=0 X-pair-Authenticated: 173.51.152.222 Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:56:03 -0700 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Perhaps it is time to fix it? MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.26dev; build=2264 X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Message-ID: ** Reply to message from "Neil Waldhauer" on Wed, 16 Sep 2009 06:08:16 -0700 > > In fact I have read that > > in the US, you are now committing a crime by having an open router!! > > The point being that criminals (drug dealers, bank robbers, spammers > > etc.) can use an open wifi router to communicate through and they can't > > be traced. > > I imagine you may have read such a thing, but it is not so. > > 1. Anyone in the USA can have an open router. Sadly yes. Most are open because the person installing it is ignorant about security, they just plug it in and use it. Some people know about security but are too stupid to do it correctly. > 2. Criminals (or anyone else) using an open router can easily be traced. If someone parks near your house and uses your open router how do you find them? Even finding a neighbor using your open router would be a problem if your neighbor knows how to fake a MAC address. -- Robert Blair