Originally posted by bishop375:
Originally posted by deftoned989:
No and No. Those are two very different situations.

It's different when THEIR signal is broadcasting onto MY property. I'm not going onto their property to get the signal. The router BROADCASTS the signal out to the cards that RECEIVE it. If I'm receiving it on my property I don't see how you can compare those two ridiculous situations to this one.



Because the odds are they are unaware of the situation. You're using someone else's internet connection, regardless of how you're connected to it.





Too bad. My next-door neighbors sometimes crank their stereo up loud enough for me to hear, too. Under licensing restrictions, this is technically illegal because my listening in constitues them publically "broadcasting" the music. It's not as if securing a wireless router signal is an arcane science known only to Linux gurus and NSA spooks. Quite frankly, given all the press and warnings about unsecured networks, I'd say a very bold case could be made that failure to provide even rudimentary measures to secure one's network is tacit approval for public access.

"Think of it, if you like, as a librarian with a G-string under the tweed." Clarkson on the Mondeo.