Nokia calls Wireless Warchalkers 'Thieves'

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 ;)

Comments

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[markalanj]

Just drawing symbols in chalk on a sidewalk to mark where you can get free wireless access is not theft. If you sit down and use the bandwidth now that is theft. But I feel that it is the responsibliy of the company, organisation or indvidual who owns the wireless network to secure it. Frankly I would gladly sit down an slurp some of their bandwidth.

(Potential bandwidth theif and proud of it)

Once...

[Lord Kano]

I was accused of "stealing" a static IP from an ISP. At the time I was using a Mac and it was soon after Open Transport was released and stable. I signed up for ISDN service with a providor. In the TCP/IP control panel you could manually enter an IP address. I did this, to see what would happen, surprisingly every time I connected, I was given that IP address.

I was accused of stealing the static IP because I didn't pay the extra charge for the priveledge of a static IP. If someone misconfigures their hardware, if they respond to every request, be it for a static IP, DHCP address assignment or blowjobs, it is not stealing to take from them.