News: Man held over wireless broadband "theft"
I remember reading a similar story a while back, while this, like the other one is blatant .. I wonder if such a case would stand up otherwise.
I think the other one was someone in a car with their windows shielded, so hard to argue you weren't intending to use someone elses service I guess. Though why people would bother to go to such lengths for a broadband connection is beyond me .. but then again I don't understand some people
Given that depending where you are, there are paid-for and free Wifi access points, and that PCs will scan and connect to whatever they can, it would be difficult to proove that someone had intentionally stolen bandwidth from a private network or merely used something intended for public use which was free, or so they thought.
Regardless of that, it still makes sense to ensure enycrption is enabled.
I think the other one was someone in a car with their windows shielded, so hard to argue you weren't intending to use someone elses service I guess. Though why people would bother to go to such lengths for a broadband connection is beyond me .. but then again I don't understand some people
Given that depending where you are, there are paid-for and free Wifi access points, and that PCs will scan and connect to whatever they can, it would be difficult to proove that someone had intentionally stolen bandwidth from a private network or merely used something intended for public use which was free, or so they thought.
Regardless of that, it still makes sense to ensure enycrption is enabled.
I spend a lot of time in the camper van over night waiting for a morning surf. I love the fact that I can pull up and log onto an open wireless to check email and the swell forecasts for the next day on my laptop. The problem is somepeople take the mick and download movies etc off other peoples connections.
In a perfect world all routers would ship with an extra wireless layer. If all routers set 10% of avaliable bandwidth on an open unsecured access point the almost the whole country could have access to email and web wherever they were without affecting the owners of the broadband. I would open mine up if I could find a router that could do that (that wasn't an expensive corporate class).
FREE THE INTERNET!! Power to the people etc. etc....
In a perfect world all routers would ship with an extra wireless layer. If all routers set 10% of avaliable bandwidth on an open unsecured access point the almost the whole country could have access to email and web wherever they were without affecting the owners of the broadband. I would open mine up if I could find a router that could do that (that wasn't an expensive corporate class).
FREE THE INTERNET!! Power to the people etc. etc....
