What to do?

[Brian Densmore]

Hey, how much is a wireless card? It might be a fun weekend activity to
go warchalking. Let's warchalk the whole stinking metro! I'm with you
Michienne, the airwaves ought to be free! Can you use anything more
permanent than chalk? Now all I need is to make a power adapter for my
laptop to plug into the lighter socket.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phoenician [mailto:phoenician at phoenixcolony.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 9:55 AM
> To: Jeremy Fowler; kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: RE: What to do?
> 
> 
> Ack.  A weekend of not checking my email makes for a long 
> morning read.
> 
> Hey Jer,
> 
>   Did you know that on both the East and West Coasts select cities are
> experimenting with having public WLANs?  The only way to find 
> them is by
> war-driving/chalking, that is until the public WLANs gained attention
> through publication in several periodicals concerning the 
> location of the
> WLANS.
> If I had wireless card I would be doing the same thing.
> I have even considered making a neighborhood WLAN after I take the
> appropriate
> step to make it secure and all.
> 
> In the Information Age certain things should be publicly available.
> If not, then the rift between the "privileged" and 
> "unfortunate" will become
> even more disparate.  The only way for our society to 
> progress is by doing
> the
> right thing.  Sometimes that will mean sticking your neck out.
> 
> Here is a perfect example:
> 
> Did you know that the Good Samaritan Law/Act does not cover EMTs?
> Why you may ask... Because as an EMT we (I was one) are 
> professionally train
> people.  If we screw up in the field and cause someone to 
> loose their life
> as a result of our actions (be it negligence or circumstance) 
> we can be sued
> and held liable.  Why?  Because we have received training.
> But why did I become an EMT?  To make a difference.  I've put 
> my neck on the
> line
> many times. Even after I stopped working as an EMT just as 
> many ex-EMTs have
> also.
> If we let the potential risk of litigation stop us from doing 
> the right
> thing, if we
> let it keep us from trying to make a difference
> 
> 
>  I feel that as a responsibly aware citizen, not as a 
> nationality but as
> member of
> society as a whole, we have a duty to speak-up when we KNOW 
> something is
> wrong.
> To not give strength to our voice and turn a blind eye is no 
> better than
> observing
> someone about to be mugged and continue about our business.
> If we know that something is wrong and that unsuspecting 
> people may suffer
> then onus is upon us to prevent that from happening.
> 
> I will still stand by my previous offer.
> 
> If no one else will notify the SysAdmins then I will.
> 
> - Michienne
> 
> a fronte praecipitium a tergo lupi
> 
> (latin translation: a precipice in front, wolves behind)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Jeremy Fowler
> Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 5:30 PM
> To: phoenician at phoenixcolony.com; kclug at kclug.org; 
> j_r_sanchez at yahoo.com
> Subject: RE: What to do?
> 
> 
> Well, hold on there Michienne. I don't necessarily consider 
> driving around
> in
> your car looking for Wireless Access Points very high up on my good
> Samaritan
> totem pole. If you ask me, warchalking is, at the very least, 
> suspicious.
> Jose,
> I can understand being curious with a new technology, but you 
> willingly
> opened
> this can of worms without any help from us. It would be 
> different if you
> were
> able to access them from your home or office, but you 
> willingly searched out
> these open networks for some reason. You had to have some 
> type of motive for
> your actions, why are you coming to the list now with your 
> moral dilemma?
> Maybe
> you got scared and thought you would get caught and now you 
> need an alibi.
> Or
> perhaps your looking to make a quick buck and want some 
> verification that
> your
> actions are legal. Either way, I wouldn't hire you cause I 
> don't trust your
> motives. I doubt anyone else would either. Just my $0.02...
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net
> > [mailto:owner-kclug at marauder.illiana.net]On Behalf Of Phoenician
> > Sent: Friday, January 10, 2003 3:32 PM
> > To: kclug at kclug.org
> > Subject: RE: What to do?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >   It's really too bad that we live in a society that
> > has to think twice or trice about doing a good deed.
> > If you know the name of the companies that have their
> > networks wide open, contact me off list and I will
> > inform them for you.
> >
> > - Michienne
> >
> >
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