On 13-Jan-06, at 11:52 PM, Clem Bacani wrote:
Drive around the neighborhood, park your car, open your laptop with broadband wireless adapter and presto you are connected online. Chances are you will have more than one signal within that area. You are not stealing a signal because you are not intruding to someone else's property. Incidentally, the signal is there in the air for you to use.
Not true - it is theft of service and you are intruding, even though you are not literally in their home. The signal you pick up is likely only open simply because a resident in that area who has a wireless router did not bother to, or does not know how to, set up security to protect their network. This does not make it legal for you to surf and is not a gray area at all.
Actually, what you suggest above is just as much a crime as walking into somebody's home because you found the door unlocked and using/ stealing their property.
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