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Just came on my lappy and it does its usual search for wireless connections finds mine and also finds someone elses unsecure connection so i think hmmmmmm, am i right in saying its not illegal for me too say use this
as they have not put a wep key in place or any measures to stop curious soles like myself in taking advantage of there lovely 1mb connection?
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Posted: 2005-12-30 00:48:37
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I think someone got fined for doing this.
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Posted: 2005-12-30 00:56:11
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@Jag: I think it is safe to assume, if a person has not WEP encrypted his wifi network, he wants it to be a public network.
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Posted: 2005-12-30 10:47:01
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in the early days of wifi people called this
war driving and I have to admit I still do it now when walking around the cities with my k-jam
its just a bit of fun but much rarer these days to find an unsecure network you can actually connect through
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Posted: 2005-12-30 11:01:01
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I think it was called war chalking.
This message was posted from a Nokia
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Posted: 2005-12-30 11:17:15
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War Driving is looking for a network, War Chalking is placing a chalk mark outside the building to denote there is an unsecured network there.
And YES this IS highly illegal. If you get caught, you will get fined or a possible jail sentence. It falls under the computer misuse act as 'unauthorised access'.
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Posted: 2005-12-30 11:20:26
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that is, if they catch you!
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Posted: 2005-12-30 11:31:59
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On 2005-12-30 11:20:26, Rocky B. wrote:
And YES this IS highly illegal.
Only if you do it, though. Its not illegal if you don't. I think we need to take it in perspective
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Posted: 2005-12-30 11:40:37
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How can they catch you anyways??? they can only detect ur connection.... unless ur wifi user name is ur laptop/device serial No. then it is possible to catch you with ur detail of purchase that goes along with the serial No. other than that it is really safe....
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Posted: 2005-12-30 17:40:38
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What conection are you using?
My wifi hasnt got a WEP key, just havnt got around to setting 1 up, and im not actually sure how to do it lol. So if any1 wants to PM me how to do it that would be great.
I think if you use it sometime then the person will be non the wiser.
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Posted: 2005-12-30 18:11:11
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