Re:A poor analogy (Score 1)

I like your analogy but the problem is that it's unidirectional. Nothing is lost by watching someone else's TV.

I think we should be seeing this more like using somebody's wireless phone. Originally, wireless phones had no encryption (or "mating"). In the US and in Canada, there's no fees for calling locally so using the line to make local calls would not incur any charges to the owner. Do I think it's right? No. The line would sound busy for a caller so the analogy is not perfect but not very far.

You could use the phone line to do illegal activities. Going back to unidirectional communications, you could potentially use the airwaves to pick up the person's credit card number while ordering pizza for example.

If I'm not technically inclined, I do I know the phone transceiver is not secured?