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Story: Man arrested over wireless 'piggybacking'
Is it Theft If The Owner Doesn't Mind?
If someone visiting my area needs a connection or if a neighbour's ISP goes down I'm happy for them to use my Wireless Internet connection, its not secured for that reason. My LAN PCs are set up not to allow access to unauthorised users. My Mac is pretty safe anyway.
Should we start a campiagn to get people who can take appropraite precautions and are not concerned by occasioanl use by passers by to leave their WiFi open and indicate its available for access in its name, e.g. Brian's Shareable Open Network
How can I do this?
Better still the law should be changed so that if WiFi is not secured that should indicate its open for other's to use - in practice and in law.
That is how to make mobile compouting ubiquitous, the current situation is totally retarded and contrary to the whole "grid" always connected culture of the Internet and Mobile Computing.
On the other topic or WHY? The police have become a sad bunch of technical prosecutors of the the middle classes and motorists who also pay their wages, built on a raft of arbitrary trap and fine legisalation, frightened and/or incapable of policing the real criminals who don't conform to normal society - while prosecuting citizens who do try to enforce the law in the absence of any effective policing.
Brian Catt
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