Tom G wrote:
"thunder" wrote in message
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On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:01:02 -0500, Wayne.B wrote:

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 04:41:59 GMT, "Tom G"
wrote:

End result..the man gets arrested for using the WiFi without
permission..pays a $250 fine.

The law and its jurisdiction is very muddy with regard to "unauthorized"
WiFi access. My advice is to be discreet, and above all, admit nothing.

Yup, quite muddy, but your advice is quite accurate.

http://blog.pff.org/archives/Hale%20...0Liability.pdf

Interesting PDF. In the future, I think it would be prudent to have a
solitaire game ready to pop up and a story about the wife kicking me out of
the house to have a "girlfriends" only Tupperware Party or similar. When I
got a DSL line in my home, I observed that my new laptop would identify
another WiFi access point nearby. That's since disappeared...hmmm..maybe my
neighbor has figured out it's cheaper to use mine instead of paying for his.
I'll have to look into password protecting mine.

Your neighbor(s) may have got wise and stopped broadcasting system IDs.
I broadcast my ID because my wife's work laptop seems to have too much
trouble finding the network without it. I don't worry much about it as
I keep it enrypted and restrict access to a list of known MAC
addresses.