said by joako 
There you are stepping the boundary. The AP is asking for a password. You know it's not an AP you own or you were contracted to work on. Just because it's the default password means nothing. Your brute force attempts are no different than if the password had been changed by the owner.
Wachovia leaves the default combination on their safe.. is it ok to open it up?
[/BQUOTE :Which answer you want?
The one where I split legal hairs, or the common sense one?
It's unclear what you mean by 'ok.'
Is it legal?
Technically, no.
Would I ever be convicted of anything?
Highly unlikely. No attempt at penetrating past the gateway is made.
And of course I'm protected by practicality.
There isn't any evidence other than my own admission.
I'm not hacking anything.
These aren't secure systems monitored by professionals.
No one is going to complain.
If they wanted to, they wouldn't have any logs to back them up, and if they did - what are they going to do - scan the state for my mac address?
I can just visualize Homeland Security coming after me for unauthorized securing of access points.
Oh, wait - I can't.
I don't really care if it's ok anyway - it relieves my boredom and that's what really matters in the larger scheme of things.
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