Thursday, June 19, 2008

Confessions of a Wi-Fi Thief

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday June 19, @10:30AM
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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