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Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the is-that-a-bandwidth-in-your-pocket dept.

Michelle Shildkret from Time wrote in to tell us about a story about "the ethics of stealing Wi-Fi. Many of us been guilty of the same crime at one point or another — according to the article, 53% of us at least. But how guilty do we really feel? As it is officially a crime to steal wi-fi (Title 18, Part 1, Chapter 47 of the United States Code, which covers anybody who 'intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access')."

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  1. no theft here by Telecommando · · Score: 1, Redundant

    I don't access other computers, I only connect to access points.

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  2. short answer by tacokill · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Routers are computers.

    They have CPU's. They have memory. And they perform tasks....like routing packets, firewalling, stateful packet inspection, VPN server, etc.