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Originally posted by badkarma90
reply to post by BornPatriot
But what if you're like me where you can just steal the wifi from a neighbor? ...much like I'm doing now.
Originally posted by Moonsouljah
reply to post by RFBurns
Maybe it's not petty but rather a lesson in sharing. America is Socialist nowadays mind you.
If you or anyone teaches their kids not to steal I hope they turn off the nightly news from Washington.
He's just redistributing the WiFi wealth.
Originally posted by BornPatriot
You guys crack me up... PUBLIC - WIFI is any unsecured Router with Internet access . if it is not locked with a WEP Key you can use it --- FREE of "Charge" if he used a Wep Key hacker and gained access that is Federal crime...
Originally posted by Moonsouljah
But seriously, to anyone who says it's stealing: produce a law that states this -as a challenge. I'd like to see it. And if there is no law, then by my logic I would conclude it would either constitute:
A) a legal form of stealing or
B)it is not stealing.
If it is A, then there should be a law enacted and until then don't complain about it because it is legal. Go write your representative or something. I'm sure DC knows all about theft laws.
Originally posted by Moonsouljah
reply to post by badmedia
Yo bro- I ain't stealin' nothing. I was simply defending the guy who initially claimed such.
And Kudos BornPatriot-- If it ain't locked it's public.
www.law.com...
Florida Man Charged With Stealing Wi-Fi Signal
The Associated Press
July 8, 2005
Police have arrested a man for using someone else's wireless Internet network in one of the first criminal cases involving this fairly common practice.
Benjamin Smith III, 41, faces a pretrial hearing this month following his April arrest on charges of unauthorized access to a computer network, a third-degree felony.
Police say Smith admitted using the Wi-Fi signal from the home of Richard Dinon, who had noticed Smith sitting in an SUV outside Dinon's house using a laptop computer.
The practice is so new that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement doesn't even keep statistics, according to the St. Petersburg Times, which reported Smith's arrest this week.
Innocuous use of other people's unsecured Wi-Fi networks is common. But experts say that illegal use often goes undetected, such as people sneaking on others' networks to traffic in child pornography, steal credit card information and send death threats.
Security experts say people can prevent such access by turning on encryption or requiring passwords, but few bother or even know how to do so.
Wi-Fi, short for Wireless Fidelity, has enjoyed prolific growth since 2000.
Millions of households have set up wireless home networks that allow people to use the Web from their backyards but also reach the house next door or down the street.
Prosecutors declined to comment, and a working phone number could not be located for Smith.
www.time.com...
Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief
By Lev Grossman Thursday, Jun. 12, 2008
Apparently that violates Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who "intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access."
www.law.cornell.edu...
TITLE 18 > PART I > CHAPTER 47 > § 1030Prev | Next § 1030. Fraud and related activity in connection with computers
Originally posted by Vasilis Azoth
If something is in my house and it was put in MY house by its owner is it stealing if I use it?
These wifi signals are in my house and I didn't put them there. So I use them. Can't be stealing. The owner but the signal in my house!
Vas
If you visit my home and leave your wallet there, may I go thru it, take your money and run up your credit cards? After all you left it at MY HOUSE!
[edit on 3/12/2009 by greeneyedleo]