Not for me.  I would avoid the whole theft of service approach.  I think you 
are on shaky legal ground, plus it sounds lame unless LDS folks really are 
easily scared.

Say it is against the Terms of Service they agreed to, and will result in 
disconnection of service.  That doesn’t mean it is a crime.

The better approach is probably that unsecured WiFi lets anyone within range 
capture everything you transmit without encryption, allows them access to your 
network and router on the trusted side of your firewall making it much easier 
for hackers, and as you mentioned could cause law enforcement to blame you for 
bad things someone else did on the Internet via your IP address.


From: Chuck McCown 
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 2:39 PM
To: af@afmug.com 
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Scary Letter

Brett, Ken  does this wording work better?

5)    Allowing a neighbor to use your WiFi connection instead of purchasing 
service for their own house  is a crime called “Theft of Service”.  You are 
collaborating in this theft and jeopardizing your own service as well.  

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