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Jailtime For Leeching Wireless?
jginspace writes "A 17-year-old from Singapore is is facing three years' jailtime for accessing his neighbor's wireless network.
His neighbor complained and now the unfortunate Tan Jia Luo is facing charges under the computer misuse act and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday."
1. Don't take any of the many simple steps I could take to lock down my network despite the fact that many devices are designed to automatically lock onto any open wireless network.
2. Rename wireless network free help yourself.
3. Insist that charges are pressed against my neighbours.
4. Buy their houses at low low prices and use the space for an indoor pool and a bowling alley.
Think of the Children; Sleep with your Sister
From Hardwarezone:
``While the case is the first of its kind here, there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States.''
OMG BUSH PWNS CIVIL LIBERTIES!!
Please correct me if I got my facts wrong.
Do they have any oil? I think the Singaporeans need to be "liberated" a la Bush 2.0 :)
Bill Clinton: Pimp we can believe in. - The Shirt!!!
I was recently driving down a country road up in the mountains and the passenger and I had to use the bathroom so I took a side road that went about 15 feet and ended in a small forested clearing. We got out and did our business then 2 county police SUVs pulled up and after about a 45 minutes of threats and questioning we were both handcuffed and arrested on charges of criminal tresspassing II (Outdoor tresspassing) After spending the weekend in jail I was arreigned and got to read the police report. Apparently this was a private driveway for a house that will be built the following year and the owner saw us from the housee he is living in now which is up on the hill. Now there were no private driveway or no tresspassing signs on the driveway which probably would have turned us around but it is the law and after talking to my lawyer it seems hopeless to fight this charge (Our town has a population of around 900 people and the good old boy system is extremely hard to break without spending a small fortune to bring a lawyer from a larger city such as Seattle or Bellevue in to fight for you. As of this time the state is asking for 180 days in jail with 170 suspended and a total fine of $1850 with 2 years of supervised probation and random drug testing. Seems somewhat of the same to me as I also run an unsecured wireless network and I dont mind if people log in and use my network. It seems to me that if you dont want someone using your network, take a second to read your router's manual and put a password on it. Then there are always the people who just set traps like building a driveway 30 miles up a dirt road and not putting a sign or gate on it and wait on a hill with binoculars waiting for someone to tresspass....
I think USA should invade Singapore a.s.a.p. and bring freedom to it's citizens.
It's fairly obvious that you have no ethical or legal right to use a service that has been misconfigured to give you access, against the intent of the owner. It's irrelevant that the misconfiguration happens to be a factory default.
I'm so glad I've finally found someone that shares my opinion! I have the same problem with this new webserver I set up for my own use. I get all pissed off when people visit MY webserver without specifically asking permission from me. These bastards are using MY bandwidth, and I didn't even tell them they could use MY server! Sure, I've posted links all over the internet to the website, but that's just to make it easier for me. Why do people click on those links when I didn't tell them it's OK to do so? Some joker even told me he DIDN'T click on the link, his browser did! He claims some weirdo software program did it for him that pre-cache's content to speed up browsing. Maybe I should sue the people who make that caching software, or have them all arrested.
People have suggested I turn on this whole password thing, but I don't know how to set up that up. Plus I hate typing in passwords.
I've gone to court about it even. For some strange reason the judge just started laughing and laughing at me though. It was hard for him to even bang the gavel and dismiss my lawsuit because he was laughing so hard.
(Oh, by the way I hope you didn't read any of this post since I didn't give any explicit permission for you to do so, including this sentence). If you did, expect a lawsuit to follow.
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