I found this article in The Daily Beast to be fascinating! I haven’t checked out all the recommended links and don’t know whether their list is one to be relied on, but I’m betting at least a few of these hints will be appreciated! Here is a shortened synopsis, but be sure to check out the entire list and reasons why these ideas made the list! Continue reading
Filed under Creativity, Life Lessons, Media, Progressive Ideals, Research
My son received an ipod touch for Christmas from his mother. With it he is able to connect to the internet where he can check his email and surf the web almost like he does when he sits before his computer. My son’s and my PC are wired into our router in our basement. My daughter has a wireless connection to the router for her computer in her upstairs bedroom. Given that we had a degree of space to cover with the wireless option, I got a router that blasts quite a bit more signal than I really need to cover my house.
I thought my wireless connection was password protected, but when my son set up his ipod touch in my house, we found that it is not, and thus anyone who has a wireless card could pick up my signal – throughout my block, I would guess. This discovery led to my current ethical dilemma: should I password protect my wireless connection? Am I diminished in any way when someone, I don’t know, uses my wireless connection? Does it cost me more if someone else uses the connection? Since I think the answer to both questions is “No”. I plan to leave it unprotected. Am I missing anything in my thinking here, is what I am wondering?
If someone was using my internet access to commit cyber-crimes that would make me reconsider my decision, but I don’t know of that happening, and doubt I could ever know if that happened or not. Should this possibility be enough to make me reconsider? Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
Filed under Ethics, The Internet
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