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   From: marian@dumbshits.com   
      
   On Fri, 28 Nov 2025 10:54:26 +0000, Andy Burns wrote:   
      
   > wasbit wrote:   
   >   
   >> Hmmm! 19 replies & not a mention of bandwidth theft.   
   >   
   > Amazed that any wifi router is set for no authentication ...   
      
   To that point, while I get my Internet for free from a WISP, I live on a   
   mountain where I can see a city below of almost a million inhabitants, so   
   with any one of my many powerful Ubiquiti Rocket dishes, I can "see"   
   perhaps hundreds of access points, some of which are not secured.   
      
   Of course, the rooftop radio needs to have a very good sensitivity with low   
   noise in my local environment (for a good SNR) to reliably receive weak   
   signals and of course the radio needs to be set to a very high power output   
   with a narrow beamwidth (and channel width), but all that "can" be   
   accomplished if you felt like stealing someone else's bandwidth.   
      
   I don't do it, of course, for the obvious reasons, but my only point to   
   other is that a surprising amount of those appear to be unsecured.   
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