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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        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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