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|    Paul to Hank Rogers    |
|    Re: OT? Can my neiighbor, whose wifi I'm    |
|    28 Nov 25 21:36:54    |
      XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11, misc.phone.mobile.iphone       From: nospam@needed.invalid              On Fri, 11/28/2025 5:47 PM, Hank Rogers wrote:       > 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"       networktype=infrastructure       >>       >       > Indeed! But I think it's time for a detailed, comprehensive, adult tutorial.       >              That's one of the reasons I get this group, for the subtle humour.               Paul              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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