From: black.hole.4.spam{at}gmail.com (Don Hills)

In article , Mike N.
 wrote:
>
>  This is possible, but he never refers to the firewall in his message.   I
>don't think his workaround even deals with the firewall.     He makes the
>mistaken assumption that if you intentionally connect to a network, the
>network provider is somewhat trustworthy - a very bad assumption.  More
>than a few open wireless access points are run by the bad guys.

I don't think he makes that assumption personally. I think he's playing the
role of "Joe Average" user.

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