Sunday, August 26, 2007

Is stealing wireless wrong?

So here's the thing. Are they going to prosecute someone who stands outside a bakery warming their hands? It is a bit like reading your book from the light coming out from someone's window.

Read the article HERE.


A wardriving we will go!
One in three mobile workers worldwide routinely hijack wireless connections- at a time when police on both sides of the Atlantic are coming down hard on "broadbandits" they catch jumping onto Wi-Fi connections.

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Police: Wi-Fi arrest not part of a crackdown
The arrest of a man for piggybacking on someone else's Wi-Fi-enabled broadband connection is not part of a wider crackdown, police said on Thursday. A 39-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday morning by two police community support officers (PCSOs) from Hounslow, as he sat on a wall outside a house in Chiswick, west London. He admitted to police that he had used a third party's unsecured Wi-Fi access point to gain access to the internet.

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