Wireless Hijacker Dealt First UK Punishment 663
paella_dodger writes "The BBC is reporting on a recent UK court case whereby a man was fined £500, sentenced to 12 months' conditional discharge and had his laptop confiscated for browsing the 'net on his neighbour's wireless Internet conenction. Perhaps I should secure my neighbour's wireless connection for him before Windows automagically connects to it and gets me arrested!"
excellent (Score:2, Funny)
fantastic...
Re:In Perspective... (Score:5, Funny)
Hmm, UK justice is very different from US justice...
Knock knock (Score:5, Funny)
Man 1: "Knock knock",
Man 2: "Come in",
Man 1: Goes in.
Man 2: Police arrest that man.
Man 1: But I knocked and you said I could come in
Man 2: But that was a misconfiguration, if I wanted you to come in I would have put a "FreeToComeIn" sign on my door.
Logging onto an unprotected network is hacking? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:So what does this accomplish? (Score:3, Funny)
When I had the only WAP in my building, no problem. When my neighbours above, below, and on either side all decided to use the same channel for their wireless they were making things worse for everybody.
Mostly, I was only worried about me, of course. I logged on to their unsecured routers and put them on channels likely to cause less interference.
Finally (Score:2, Funny)
IN YOUR FACE, UK!!
Re:In Perspective... (Score:3, Funny)
This method was introduced by Margaret Thatcher to take down crime.
It worked.