"Tom G" wrote in message
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"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:01:02 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:41:59 GMT, "Tom G"
wrote:

End result..the man gets arrested for using the WiFi without
permission..pays a $250 fine.

The law and its jurisdiction is very muddy with regard to "unauthorized"
WiFi access. My advice is to be discreet, and above all, admit nothing.

Yup, quite muddy, but your advice is quite accurate.

http://blog.pff.org/archives/Hale%20...0Liability.pdf

Interesting PDF. In the future, I think it would be prudent to have a
solitaire game ready to pop up and a story about the wife kicking me out
of the house to have a "girlfriends" only Tupperware Party or similar.
When I got a DSL line in my home, I observed that my new laptop would
identify another WiFi access point nearby. That's since
disappeared...hmmm..maybe my neighbor has figured out it's cheaper to use
mine instead of paying for his. I'll have to look into password protecting
mine.

Tom G.


Although the nearest neighbor's house is nowhere near close enough to pick
up our router signal, the server technician still programmed our service to
only connect computers with certain ID's (ours).
I tried another laptop recently that is not on the list and it would not
connect.

RCE