On Wed, Dec 10, 2003, Shachar Shemesh wrote about "Re: Cable Internet, 012, and what's between it...":When you connect to the internet, you get an IP. The IP is marked, at the ISP's side, as belonging to you. If that IP address does something bad, it's your door the police are going to be knocking down on.
Lastly, reconsider whether you really want to use DHCP to connect. This means your username and password are not checked, and you are authenticated based on..... your network card's MAC address. Yes, that's right.
So what? This sort of "authentication"'s only purpose is to protect the ISP
from unauthorized people connecting to their network - you shouldn't care
diddly squat about this. You're not paying per minute or per megabyte, and
nobody can "steal" anything from you if they break this "authentication".
And I even doubt that they really use only your MAC address for their own
protection - the cable network probably knows from which apartment your
connection is coming and whether you're authorized to use the Internet service.
Now, how possible is it going to be for you to claim that this does not prove anything? You could hire my services, which is not a bad thing in and on itself, but does not guarentee that the trial is going to go your way.
Personally, I'd rather not even start.
Shachar
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