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08-23-2001

BH, I am very familiar with that train of thought, but it will NOT stand up in court. It's been tried and it has failed. Simple as that.

The parallel that an attorney used to explain it to me went something like this....

If you were walking down the street in a neighborhood and saw two houses, one had the front door and opem windows (not the Microsoft type) and the other had a fence, bars on the windows and a locked front door; would it be leagle for you to enter either house? No.

I'm not interested in arguing whether this is right or wrong. I just want to make sure that people who do use wireless to gain unauthorized access to a network understand the potential consequences of their actions.

If you're going to play the game, know the rules.

08-23-2001	#3 (permalink)
Posts: n/a	BH, I am very familiar with that train of thought, but it will NOT stand up in court. It's been tried and it has failed. Simple as that. The parallel that an attorney used to explain it to me went something like this.... If you were walking down the street in a neighborhood and saw two houses, one had the front door and opem windows (not the Microsoft type) and the other had a fence, bars on the windows and a locked front door; would it be leagle for you to enter either house? No. I'm not interested in arguing whether this is right or wrong. I just want to make sure that people who do use wireless to gain unauthorized access to a network understand the potential consequences of their actions. If you're going to play the game, know the rules.