"Paul Harper" <paul@harper.net> wrote in message
news:6i9he1hog3fnnt9lifridsfcdlr7jjj2r9@4ax.com...
> On Thu, 28 Jul 2005 10:08:10 +0100, "The Todal" <deadmailbox@beeb.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
>
> I don't have a lot of sympathy - anyone who doesn't put security on
> their wireless network deserves all they get as far as I am concerned.

Agreed. I now use security on my home wireless broadband. It does
unfortunately mean that when my kids are trying to connect, their computers
connect them to the neighbour's service and seemingly I can't prevent that.
Or at least, if there is a way I'd like to know it.

The suggestion is, though, that if you go looking for free wireless
connections you are likely to be breaking the law as soon as you make a
connection to someone's service. Not a lot of people know that, I should
think.