Jailtime For Leeching Wireless? 587
jginspace writes "A 17-year-old from Singapore is is facing three years' jailtime for accessing his neighbor's wireless network.
His neighbor complained and now the unfortunate Tan Jia Luo is facing charges under the computer misuse act and is scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday."
My new cunning plan (Score:5, Funny)
2. Rename wireless network free help yourself.
3. Insist that charges are pressed against my neighbours.
4. Buy their houses at low low prices and use the space for an indoor pool and a bowling alley.
Re:remember, this is SINGAPORE (Score:2, Funny)
``While the case is the first of its kind here, there have been at least two similar arrests and convictions in the United States.''
OMG BUSH PWNS CIVIL LIBERTIES!!
Re:China is bad, and Singapore isn't soft either (Score:2, Funny)
Same story in a physical way (Score:2, Funny)
Freedom needed? (Score:1, Funny)
Re:More info (Score:3, Funny)
It's fairly obvious that you have no ethical or legal right to use a service that has been misconfigured to give you access, against the intent of the owner. It's irrelevant that the misconfiguration happens to be a factory default.
I'm so glad I've finally found someone that shares my opinion! I have the same problem with this new webserver I set up for my own use. I get all pissed off when people visit MY webserver without specifically asking permission from me. These bastards are using MY bandwidth, and I didn't even tell them they could use MY server! Sure, I've posted links all over the internet to the website, but that's just to make it easier for me. Why do people click on those links when I didn't tell them it's OK to do so? Some joker even told me he DIDN'T click on the link, his browser did! He claims some weirdo software program did it for him that pre-cache's content to speed up browsing. Maybe I should sue the people who make that caching software, or have them all arrested.
People have suggested I turn on this whole password thing, but I don't know how to set up that up. Plus I hate typing in passwords.
I've gone to court about it even. For some strange reason the judge just started laughing and laughing at me though. It was hard for him to even bang the gavel and dismiss my lawsuit because he was laughing so hard.
(Oh, by the way I hope you didn't read any of this post since I didn't give any explicit permission for you to do so, including this sentence). If you did, expect a lawsuit to follow.