Re: Pls help - want to travel wirelessly and ckeck emails

SMS wrote:

Derek Broughton wrote:

I don't believe so. Despite someone's previous statement that if you
left the door of your house open, you wouldn't be able to charge someone
with
trespass, that's just not true. They wouldn't have committed the crime
of "break and enter" (or appropriate charge under your local statutes)
but an
open door does not constitute permission to enter. There's absolutely no
need for the householder to prove that leaving the door open was an
accident. _Exactly_ the same is true of computer networks.

It's very different simply because of intent. So many wireless networks
are intentionally left open for anyone to access,

How do you know? You'd be very well advised to check.

and so many computers
are set up from the factory to attach to any wireless network, that a
prosecutor could never obtain a conviction unless there was some real
crime committed with the access.

_Don't_ count on it.

Often access to a wireless network is
unintentional.

I said that - and that would make prosecution _hard_ but not impossible.

For an analogy to be relevant, you need to find some product or service
that is sometimes intentionally shared, and sometimes not, and that

The house with the open door _does_ make a good analogy - because opening it
does not (necessarily) constitute an invitation. A person entering the
house should still make sure they're welcome. If the door's open on a hot
sunny day, it probably just means they're trying to catch a breeze. If
there's a loud party going on inside, you may well be welcome to walk right
in. It's exactly the same with a wireless network. You need to verify if
you're welcome before you use it.
--
derek
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