[extropy-chat] A wireless hail

[Jeff Davis]

My wife and I have moved back into our San Francisco house, briefly,
to prep it for sale.  I opened my new laptop and voila! I find several
unsecured home wireless networks in range.  I am in fact now online
courtesy of one of those networks.

My question: is there a way to extract the information needed to
contact the network's owner?  I could walk around the neighborhood
with my laptop, seeking an increase in the signal strength, and home
in that way, then knock on the door, but I'm really talking more about
finding and contacting them electronically.

What's the scoop?

-- 
Best, Jeff Davis

               "Everything's hard till you
                     know how to do it."
                              Ray Charles