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You can also just tell them you don't remember the password. It's in your laptop, phone, etc., but you just don't remember it and lost the Post-it that it was written on. I know lots of people with this problem
I had a complete stranger in an apartment building once come downstairs and ask to use my wifi (she was holding her laptop in her arms). I said, "I don't have wifi." (I did have wifi.) "Ohhhh...." Then I just shut the door. I had never seen her before, and didn't see her after. Hell no, you can't have a password that would give you easy access to everything on my computer.
I also wouldn't allow my neighbors to use my wifi. First, even nice people can do things that are illegal (surprisingly, a lot of people don't think there's anything wrong with illegal downloading), and secondly, it could slow down the network for when my kid and I use it - there's a difference in speed when you have five people using one network, versus two people. Also, a nice neighbor may think nothing of giving the password to their visiting child, or grandchild, or child's friend, etc., and while the neighbor may be nice, their family members and/or friends may be nightmares.
I don't know how I should feel, but I feel kinda bad right now.
In my small complex I think there are like three tenants living on SS, some are in their 50s, some just don't go to work in the year I've lived there. My neighbor this morning asked if he could get the password to my internet before I was heading into work, I didn't think about it because I'm used to the idea of roommates using my internet (which I paid for).
Then my brain kicked in and told me some of the ramifications if I let him use my secured internet:
--illegal downloads which would be under my name
--risking personal data available
--If this guy did something bad like child porn or stalking, my name will show up if I'm being tracked and I'll be the one that's screwed. Chances are no one is going to fess up, even if I point the finger it'd make me look bad.
So to summarize, I told him it would breach my contract with my ISP and he didn't seem to happy, especially when he said "Well you shouldn't of told them" and couldn't wait to get back to his apartment.
I should be used to dealing with shady Kingmanites over the years, but an old man with a trailerish family with police coming there every once so often set off a big red flag. Plus, I've allowed people to take advantage of me before because I gave them the benefit of the doubt but yet I get screwed.
Yet my guilty conscience won't let me sleep tonight. Perhaps it's my GC that makes me such an easy target in the first place. Think I'm overreacting?
Why would you give out your info, tell them to get their own internet. You don't have "Sucker" written on your forehead, right?
Before I figured out how to password-protect our router, I got a few messages from our local internet provider that I was violating copyright law because I was downloading some sort of game -- Call to Ops or something like that. They kept threatening to cut off my internet access because I was violating copyright.
Well, no, I wasn't, but I imagine the new neighbors, young men next door were.
I learned how to password-protect my router, so no more problems.
You did absolutely nothing wrong. He should have never asked you in the first place and of course you probably shouldn't have given him the password. But when you went back and told him you would breach your contract, he should have just shrugged and said ok. If he was a nice guy he would have said something like, "I understand. That's fine." His reaction tells me he's a jerk. And you have absolutely nothing to feel guilty about.
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