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Old 21-04-2007
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How is it burglary though if one person allows it and another doesn't ? There is no way of knowing that someone doesn't want you to jack into their wifi unless they password it. You can 'assume' that no one wants people to use their wifi, but maybe some don't mind. I think on a 20 minute drive I picked up around 360 wifi hot spots on the way home - about half protected, the rest either university, homes, businesses and gratis ones (installed to be free for everyone).

I can sit in the bar waiting for my food and connect to their free wifi - or I can accidentally click on the business/home next door with open wifi, or indeed my laptop can connect by itself to either when I turn it on. One is legal, the other is 'Illegal'? Ludicrous beyond words.
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