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Is Wardriving 'Immoral'?
Or should people read up on encryption...
Yesterday's story on accessing unsecured hotspots drew plenty of comments, some suggesting doing so was not only criminal, but immoral. Glenn Fleishman chimes in, noting that "for ISPs that don’t care if you share, this isn’t a crime or a problem." Mike Mesnick at Techdirt also comments, stating that "it seems that plenty of people who don't understand wireless technology absolutely assume the worse about wardriving." Assuming you're simply browsing, is it wrong to access an unsecured residential hotspot? Vote in our latest poll.

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GilbertMark
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GilbertMark

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Hmm

I'm so tired of people comparing someone using someone else's internet connection without their knowledge to breaking into their house or breaking into their car and taking whatever they find inside.

There is no comparison people. Using someone else's bandwidth can only be compared to using someone else's bandwidth and that's it.

As far as I'm concerned if you are too technologically challenged to secure your network, then you should either get off the 'net or you deserve whatever happens to you, period. Funny how Americans are only willing to learn enough to make them dangerous in some new area of technology and not enough to completely understand the workings of a product before using it.

For those that must make the burglar comparison to wardriving and can't understand anything else: You have locks on your house and you use them hopefully right? You have a lock on your car door and a lock on your ignition right? Then use the "lock" on your router or other device that gets you online too.