If you run an open wireless network with no encryption and an AP that can broadcast outside the range of your building, in my opinion you absolutely deserve everything you get. As everyone has already said, it wouldn't be hard for them to set up a daily password changing system and only give the password to people inside the shop.
What if he'd used stolen credit card numbers to buy things illegally on the Internet and had them shipped to an anonymous P.O. box, and never actually been caught using the wireless signal? The coffee shop would take a beating from the law for running the network that supported the illegal activity, and the guy would have got off scot free. It just seems like an astonishing case of scapegoating to me.
Also, as people have rightly pointed out, the fact that he was a sex offender makes absolutely no difference to anything. Unless he was using their connection to download child porn, of course.
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If you run an open wireless network with no encryption and an AP that can broadcast outside the range of your building, in my opinion you absolutely deserve everything you get. As everyone has already said, it wouldn't be hard for them to set up a daily password changing system and only give the password to people inside the shop. What if he'd used stolen credit card numbers to buy things illegally on the Internet and had them shipped to an anonymous P.O. box, and never actually been caught using the wireless signal? The coffee shop would take a beating from the law for running the network that supported the illegal activity, and the guy would have got off scot free. It just seems like an astonishing case of scapegoating to me. Also, as people have rightly pointed out, the fact that he was a sex offender makes absolutely no difference to anything. Unless he was using their connection to download child porn, of course.
Permission to be a pedant? It's actually an RJ11 jack, and it's a modem cable.
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Hopefully it just takes time for them to build up their catalog.
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You mean, you have to wait until they've downloaded the tunes off Kazaa...