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Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves'

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the well-thats-just-not-very-fun dept.

Mr]-[at writes "Nokie "has condemned as theft the placing of chalk symbols on walls and pavements at places where people can use wireless net access."" Ok I guess if you wanna be technical about it ;)

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  1. Entrapment? by John+Paul+Jones · · Score: 4, Interesting

    IANAL, but I believe that if I left a few cases of beer on the sidewalk for a few days (discounting the skunk factor) and some or all of it disappeared, it would be regarded as "Shame on me" for not securing my property, and I would have no case.

    How is this different?

    -JPJ
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  2. Re:How is it different? by chill · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Listening to their music is passive. Using someone else's network consumes resources and possibly denies those resources to the company paying for it.

    Corporate Internet connections are frequently bandwidth metered or bandwidth limited. "Burstable" connections are where the price increases as usage increases. Your usage increases bandwidt and thus has the potential for increasing their cost.

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  3. Re:How is it different? by SlugLord · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If a kid jumps into my swimming pool (which isn't fenced in) and drowns, I am responsible because a swimming pool is an attractive nuisance.
    I don't see any difference between the pool and an insecure wireless LAN, so I'd have to think the WLAN is an attractive nuisance and therefore the responsibility of the owner, not the so-called thief.