Being The First Is Not Always Great.
Posted by CJCM on November 14th, 2006
You wouldn’t want to be the first to be charged for ’stealing’ neighbour’s WiFi bandwidth, would you? Excuse me….stealing? Yes…meaning taking something belonging to someone else without permission…that’s why you can be charged in the court of law of a country.
The unfortunate incident happened in Singapore where the neighbour had reported to the police about the teenager taking free rides surfing the internet off the neighbour’s WiFi connection.
If found guilty under the Singapore’s Computer Misuse Act, Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, could face a possible fine of SGD10,000 or the three years in prison.
I wonder if the charge would hold any water because if you are using a WiFi router and does not secure your connection, which is standard feature in a WiFi and easily configured, everyone within your WiFi range can detect your signal and connect to the internet for free. I wonder how the court would respond to the lawyers from both sides.
You guys want to share how you would prosecute and/or defend this case?
Read the Register via Engadget
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