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It’s always cool when you are doing something that people feel is unconventional, and then you discover that one of the more respected minds out there basically thinks the same way. This was my happy discovery today as I read Bruce Schneier’s Steal This Wi-Fi, having gone through pretty much exactly the same thought process. I still find it truly bizarre to think of access to the Internet as the gatekeeper of sorts. The bottom line is that getting on to the Internet is trivially easy, even if your name is Osama Bin Laden. There network is just too large and too unregulated. The trick is limiting what unauthorized people can do once they are on the network.

Wouldn’t you know it? The wife and I finally decide to pull the trigger on getting a home server, we go out and buy all the bits at the best prices we can find (actually got a Core2 Duo for $150… with a crummy ECS motherboard thrown in!), and now analysts are predicting a price war in the weeks ahead. Perfect.