UK Police Cracking Down on Broadband Theft

dubculture writes "A 39 year-old man in West London was arrested for dishonestly obtaining free internet access" from an unsecured wireless router nearby. The article discusses a couple of other cases, including one where a fine of £500 (~US$1000) was handed out for, essentially, taking advantage of someone else's inability (read: apathy) towards securing their home network."

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Re:No problem

[ghoul]

And what about the owner of the wifi paying me for using my airwaves for free without my permission? The owner of the wifi should be mandated by law to install shielding on his house to prevent leakage of the signal to a public place the street. Who knows what damage all the excess wifi is doing to my brain when I am just walking down the street or parked on a public right of way. If the owner wants to save money on shielding the least they can do is share their access point. In fact encryption, WEP/WPA , hiding of SSIDs etc should all be illegal