On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:08:10 +0100, The Todal in message
<news:3krljuFvksnvU1@individual.net> wrote:

> I often wondered whether it was legal to do so, having had neighbours hijack
> my connection, and having discovered that my own kids were sometimes
> inadvertently hijacking a neighbour's connection.
>
> Yet another way for law abiding citizens to find themselves in breach of the
> law, then:
>

About bloody time!

I have been arguing that this was against the law for years, and always
get met with the response "where is the case law then".

And it isn't a way for law abiding citizens to find themselves in breach of
the law. It has to be done knowingly before it is illegal.

When you are sitting in a car piggybacking on whatever open network you can
find, that is obviously knowingly accessing without authorisation.

But when you accidentally pick up the neighbours' instead of your own, that
is a different kettle of fish entirely.

But it is still a good idea to secure your own network - and change the
SSID. If you don't change the SSID, then any neighbours with the same brand
of router will have the same SSID, and your laptops won't usually know
which one they are accessing.

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Alex Heney
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