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Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: Balog on April 25, 2009, 07:40:20 PM
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A man charged with a felony after using wifi from his car outside the coffee shop. I so wish I was kidding. At least he bargained it down.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9722006-7.html
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Reminds me of a quote or scenario...Rand maybe?
Something like "Eventually there were so many laws, many contradictory, that you couldn't help but break several during the course of a normal day...every man became a criminal" or such.
That's going to bug me now.
Sheesh. Don't do anything at all because you might break the law or offend someone. ;/
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Milanowski didn't immediately cite or arrest Peterson, mostly because he wasn't certain a crime had been committed. "I had a feeling a law was being broken," the chief said.
....wow. So obscure, so innocent a "crime" that no one is hurt and no one knows if it's illegal. Yeah, better get right on that one, chief... ;/
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Go straight to felony.
Do not pass through misdemeanor on the way, either. :O
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heck i could be doing triple life for grand theft wifi
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However, Peterson won't be going to prison for piggybacking. Because he has no prior record, Peterson will have to pay a $400 fine, do 40 hours of community service and enroll in the county's diversion program.
Didn't he start off getting into trouble by diverting wifi? Now they are diverting him under the supervision of the state controllers? :police: Something sems a bit mixed up here.
stay safe.
skidmark
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...were aware that using an unsecured Wi-Fi connection without the owner's permission--a practice known as piggybacking--was a felony.
So, If I were to leave my my landline laying in the yard, attached to a phone unsecured for any to use, knowing that it was unsecured and open to any Tom, Dick or Harry to use, it would be a felony for them to use it?
*Goggle*
Those who leave their Acess Points open for all to use with no manner of authentication have no leave to claim illegal access when others avail themselves of the open portal. Even the simplest of security measure (easily crackable though they be) provide at least the claim of propriety. Doing NOTHING to keep others out strikes me as folly at best....
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Elsewhere, burglary is a . (http://www.armedpolitesociety.com/index.php?topic=19221.0misdemeanor[/url)
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Key to the crime is the 'without authorization' aspect' I think it argueable, by common practice, that open access = open authorization for common incidental usage. Good luck getting someone to roll the dice with that arguement when facing a 5 year felony vs a community service plea bargain tho.
I like trotting out this law when talking with people about the 'sanctity' of law. The by the letter folks don't like clear examples of when the intent is clearly missed by the letter. Altho a great deal are willing to stand by the process of post dammage correction; people imprisoned unjustly getting enough press to prompt legislative change. I think their natural assumption is that it would never be them with their lives ruined.
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A man charged with a felony after using wifi from his car outside the coffee shop. I so wish I was kidding. At least he bargained it down.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9722006-7.html
Wow. That is old news. I remember when it was new news and nobody made a fuss about absurd felonies.
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Wifi in public? I don't know what that is, but it sounds awful kinky. Throw him in the slammer!
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Sounds like a LEO with an axe to grind.....the perp probably got the last chocolate sprinkle at the donut shop.... :rolleyes:
Reminds me of a quote or scenario...Rand maybe?
Something like "Eventually there were so many laws, many contradictory, that you couldn't help but break several during the course of a normal day...every man became a criminal" or such.
I think we're already there.... :mad: