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I call racism!
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 11, 2007, 11:13:38 am ---
The law already has been tweaked to address this, though. I'm not saying your interpretation is literally invalid - but the law is not the same as the mechanics of the sitaution. The law in many places already defines this as unlawful entry. Specifically.
Doesn't matter what the technical reality is - the law calls it illegal. The fact that people are getting arrested for it is a result of that. It's not a dated law, it's a recent law.
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See, now places like this is where Mr. receipt checker needs to apply himself. I tell you what, if I was out in public with my laptop, got on a public wifi network and got arrested for it, I would go Ape ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---.
ChadTower:
That's where it differs... a signal coming out of my house is not a public network. It is a private network and that is the key distinction. Same with my yard - I don't have a fence but you can't come hang out there without permission.
I think there actually is a grey area for public networks. Places like a library - or a coffee shop - that is advertised as free to the public. Does that mean you can use it from the parking lot? The law isn't all that clearly defined on that yet. Some shops are starting to push that it's like a bathroom... they can limit it to paying customers if they want. I don't know of any place that this has been tried in a court yet, though. And how does that affect a library? You aren't "paying" even when you're inside.
shardian:
--- Quote from: ChadTower on September 11, 2007, 11:35:41 am ---
That's where it differs... a signal coming out of my house is not a public network. It is a private network and that is the key distinction. Same with my yard - I don't have a fence but you can't come hang out there without permission.
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Schmoke's, get in here and inform Chad that you have to show proof that you warned possible trespassers before they came onto your property - usually with a sign.
ChadTower:
That was a different case - a case of a person who has come and gone without you seeing them (leaving their car behind as evidence).
This is a case of someone being caught sitting in the yard. You can make them leave, and if they do it repeatedly or refuse to leave, you can have them removed or even arrested.
MikeQ:
My family took an R.V. trip across country this year for our summer vacation. I took my laptop with me figuring I'd use it at campgrounds. We pulled over one day to look at a map and I decided to try finding a wireless connection. I found 3 of them. We soon discovered that anyone with a wireless name of Netgear or D-Link was not smart enough to change the default settings of their wireless router and therefore has no security enabled. In 100% of the cases, these routers were wide open.
The abundance of unsecured Wifi was crazy. We had internet access almost the whole trip. I was amazed at some of the places we picked it up too. It seemed like we were in the boonies with no houses around yet we were picking it up from somewhere.
Which got me to wondering. How am I supposed to know when Wifi is meant to be free vs. when I'm stealing it? What if I'm in a place that has free Wifi but I unknowingly latch onto someones private service?
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