Re: A night in the cells - for using the 'wrong' wifi!

In message <pe5o055g99lgf307k5aim12vo9jruotsf0@xxxxxxx>, Cynic <cynic_999@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Wed, 13 May 2009 21:47:52 +0100, Richard Miller
<richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

What kind of need to download a web page could be urgent enough to
justify getting out a laptop and logging on in the street, standing
outside a pub, late at night, rather than waiting until he gets home?

I can think of all kinds of scurrilous answers to that question. I
cannot think of a single plausible and innocent one.

I can think of all sorts of innocent reasons as well. Perhaps he
needed information for immediate use - for example the number of the
bus he needed to catch when he got to the bus stop he was headed
toward. Or the closing time of his local supermarket so that he could
decide whether to buy some bread at a corner shop he would pass or
wait until he got home and get it cheaper at the supermarket.

Definitely not. That is in direct contradiction of what he himself said.


Or maybe he wanted to use an Internet connection that was not
associated with himself to conduct an anonymous but perfectly legal
Internet activity - sending an email or Usenet post, that he did not
want to be traced back to himself for reasons other than they being
illegal in nature.

Not an argument which in these circumstances I have much sympathy for - certainly not when he is trying to gain our sympathy.


Unfortunately the article gives no clues as to exactly what he was
doing on the Internet, so we cannot know. He may not want to state
the reason because something in its nature may give away his identity.


Again, in that case he should be keeping his head down rather than seeking out publicity and our sympathy.
--
Richard Miller
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