NEWS: Half of computer users are Wi-Fi thieves

<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/15/stolen_wifi/>

More than half of computer users have illegally stolen Wi-Fi
connections, according to The Times - but only 11 alleged offenders
have been arrested in the UK, as the police seem to think those
deploying Wi-Fi should be more careful about securing their
connections.

The data was collected from a "Have Your Say" survey on the website
of security-specialist Sophos: apparently 54 per cent of the 560
people who responded admitted nicking bandwidth from insecure Wi-Fi
routers.

This might say more about Sophos customers than the general
population, and extrapolating the results to every computer user in
the country is probably a crime against statistics: so that's exactly
what The Times has done.

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