Re: OT: Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal - Yahoo! News

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Autor: Jared Anderson
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Para: plug-discuss
Assunto: Re: OT: Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal - Yahoo! News
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 16:30:06 -0700, Prescott Oelke writes:
> Gotta love stupid American laws.
>
> If you have a wi-fi network and you can't be bothered to put even a
> small modicum of protection on it you deserve to have your bandwidth
> used by all comers, period. I regularly tap into unsecure WAPs with my
> PDA when I'm out and about. They're everywhere. So now I can be
> arrested for checking movie times or getting mapped directions, huh?
> Good to know.



Even better - the networks without any security AND DHCP. This is a far cry from
*unauthorized access*, a third degree felony - it is literally an invitation.

The article fails to mention if the guy 'hacked' into this dude's network or was
granted access.
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