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   Hank Rogers to Marian   
   Re: OT? Can my neiighbor, whose wifi I'm   
   28 Nov 25 16:47:53   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, misc.phone.mobile.iphone   
   From: Hank@nospam.invalid   
      
   Marian wrote on 11/28/2025 1:18 PM:   
   > On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 12:41:13 -0600, Marcus90@guess.com wrote:   
   >   
   >> I might have missed it, but did anyone in this overdone thread even   
   >> begin to mention that what this user is doing is wrong?  Or is this no   
   >> longer pertinent in this day and age?   
   >   
   > I don't think he needs a morality re-education.   
   >   
   > Everyone who knows nothing about the technical issues always seems to harp   
   > on their personal "moral" aspect, where some people mentioned what you say,   
   > but as others have already noted, there's no reason to suspect illegal   
   > purposeful intent so I, for one, kept all my responses purely technical.   
   >   
   > However, since I'm on Apple newsgroups, I'm very familiar with people   
   > claiming the moral high ground solely as a substitute for knowledge about   
   > the situation. An example is iOS owners always claim that the reason they   
   > can't do things everyone else can do (even macOS owners can do them) is   
   > that Apple is "more moral" than Google or Microsoft (e.g., iOS can't do   
   > TOR, and iOS can't spoof GPS, and iOS can't randomize MAC addresses per   
   > connection, and iOS can't run system-wide firewalls, and iOS can't torrent,   
   > and the list goes on and on and on for whatg iOS can't do that the iOS   
   > owners falsely claim is a "moral" issue).   
   >   
   > Back to morals...   
   >   
   > In this thread, plenty of people explained to the OP how to "forget" and   
   > "block" connections to nearby unsecured SSIDs, which is all he needs.   
   >   
   >   netsh wlan add filter permission=block ssid="Neighbor_SSID"    
   etworktype=infrastructure   
   >   
      
   Indeed!  But I think it's time for a detailed, comprehensive, adult   
   tutorial.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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