"Fat Freddy's Cat" <port_26@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "The Todal" <deadmailbox@beeb.net> wrote in message
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>> The suggestion is, though,
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> no, its not a suggestion. It has been law for a wee while now.
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>> that if you go looking for free wireless connections
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> Yup - ***IF YOU GO LOOKING***
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>> 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.
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> I think you think wrong.

I think you think wrong. I think many people buy their wireless gear in the
belief that free internet is available, and there was a time occasionally
the newspapers would tell you where there was free wireless broadband to be
had. A typical journalist's view is at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/online/sto...383604,00.html


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> I also think you are making a mountain out of a molehill. The perp as
> reported in The Register 3 days ago was actively driving around the
> neighbours looking for open connections. Hardly the same as your kids
> linking inadvertently to your neighbours connection is it?

Is it? Or isn't it?

I shut off my kids' internet access at 11pm. Hypothetically (of course) they
might then, with my knowledge, try to circumvent this curfew by seeing
whether they can connect to any network within range. And hypothetically (we
aren't talking about young infants, here) they might browse any available
files on that network. If I am the householder and I turn a blind eye to
this, I think I might be liable.