The cost of small pleasures
7 August 2006 | 18:16 | Administration, Linux | No Comments
After reading this article linked to from slashdot (and popular enough to be backslashed), I realised that I too would be happy spending a number of hours reconfiguring my home network just to screw with anyone who had the poor judgement to try and use my wifi.
This as an alternative to leaving my network managed by my routers and its wifi secured with WPA seems like a good use of my time. Sure I need to reconfigure my whole network into multiple segments, install and configure a DHCP server, and setup rules for iptables – but dude – upside down images!
What is it that causes the (admittedly small) pleasures achieved by messing with people – regardless of whether or not you are able to see the effects directly – have such a high personal value that pretty much any effort seems well worth the time and cost it involves?
Maybe it’s just me.