mcwidget wrote: > This has happened in the UK a few years back - > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4721723.stm. A guy was fined £500, > given a 12 months conditional discharge and had his laptop and wireless card > confiscated for repeatedly using someone's unsecured wireless with his > laptop from his car. There was no evidence to suggest he was doing anything > malicious with it.
The US is not the UK. The US has some problems that the UK doesn't have. (We have decimated lawyer-client confidentiality, for instance, and seem to really like torturing people.) The UK has some problems the US doesn't have (the UK has eliminated the 400 year old prohibition on double jeopardy for serious crimes, in the UK illegally obtained evidence has always been admissible in court, though causing the officers obtaining it to be criminally liable, and so forth). And even beyond our problems, we are **different systems**. My understanding is that in the US, it is *perfectly legal* to listen or talk to any Wi-Fi system, though attempting to crack encryption is illegal. My understanding may be wrong, but I have heard of zero cases to indicate that. Consider that, in Windows XP, Microsoft made the default behavior to automatically detect and connect to open wireless APs... -Eliah _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
