wardriving a crime in Florida?

[Don Erickson]

On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Matthew Copple wrote:

> fancy radio, after all. But jumping on someone's router, pulling an IP
> and surfing on that person's bandwidth is a deliberate act,

I like this analogy better:  Person A walks up to a stream on a person B's 
property and drinks some water.  Yes, it's a deliberate act.  But, we all 
have to share this planet, and reasonable persons doing respectful and 
reasonable things didn't historically create a need for attorneys.  Now, 
if this person A drives his water truck in and hauls off twenty thousand 
gallons, or releases toxins into the stream for person B and everyone 
downstream to deal with, this is obviously a different ball gane. 
Otherwise, no harm, no foul.

But anybody (probably a corporation) too stupid to secure their wifi is 
probably stupid enough to sue for harmless trespass, so don't pay any 
attention to my pollyannaism.


Regards,

-Don