Wi-Fi Freeloader Arrested → Re: What Is A Crime?

Unless you have that wifi blocking wallpaper it's actually more like parking your car in my yard, with the keys in it.

And you getting in the car and driving it around is still illegal.

I can park the damn thing on your front porch with the keys in it and the motor running and you still can't legally enter it, nor can you legally take it for a joy ride.

Not in Florida. We have "idiot" laws. If you leave your keys in an unattended car, you could get a ticket, or goto jail. I think thats the way it SHOULD be.

It is like that in most places to bhe best of my knowledge (don't even get me started on that law), but that is not the point. You still can't take that car for a joy ride just because it is there.

You totally missed my retort. Basically, instead of making this illegal, make leaving it unlocked and unattended illegal, THEN make it illegal, so it won't get abused as just another reason to sue someone. This way the legit HotSpots can be ran without the user worrying if the owner will sue. Just ADMIT IT, it's not difficult to lock it down, if you don't, you deserve the abuse. Thats all anyone here is saying. This is beating a dead horse. IT'S DEAD ALREADY, YOU CAN'T SUE IF THE SIGNAL CAME UP ON MY SCREEN AND OFFERED TO CONNECT ME. Blame the router owner, or the O/S manufacturer for making it so easy to "accidentally" steal (or intentionally steal, whatever floats your boat.).

If stealing WIFI from techo-idiots is a crime, then it should also be a crime to unknowingly possess a worm or virus on any public or paid network since it is a risk to everyone else. If you don't like it, RTFM.

And for all you people posting stuff like "well if my car was unlocked..", don't forget that you can not just drive a car legally without a damn license. You wanna stop majority of WIFI freeloaders, let's pass a law requiring a license of some sort before you are even able to own a computer. This way the only people that are getting into WIFI networks are getting in there because:
1) They were given permission to
2) or they are hacking it anyways

Crime can not be prevented, otherwise there would be no need for jails, right? Why punish the freeloaders unless they forced their way in (AKA hacking) when the people that should be punished are the idiots that don't read instructions? Maybe watching your bandwidth creep because people are accessing your WIFI network (because you are too dumb to set up security ro too cheap to pay someone to do it) is a good punishment, IMHO.