Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Jailtime For Leeching Wireless?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thats-gotta-suck dept.

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."

2 of 587 comments (clear)

  1. Re:More info by prescor · · Score: 0, Redundant

    How about securing your WAP? I'm no advocate for theft of services, but people who plug these things in off the shelf and leave them that way are really just asking for it and really shouldn't be surprised, let alone incredulous when it happens.

    --
    signat-url: http://www2.potsdam.edu/dctm/prescor/signat-url.ht m
  2. Re:More info by devilspgd · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And when I'm at my buddy's place and I use "Linksys" with no encryption, and I stop at a local internet cafe and they have the same thing and I use it too, how is my computer supposed to know that it shouldn't jump on to the open "Linksys" SSID in range of my house?

    --
    Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but teach a man to phish...