Peter Cochrane

Dublin

Engineer, Technologist, Futurist

Robert = I don't know the exact details of the case, but the cost of wifi is much less than an average light bulb! So will I get prosecuted for reading a map by the light of someone's home or shop window?

I use open wifi access all the time across the planet....and a lot of us leave our systems wide open for the very purpose of making it easy for people to hitch a lift! Why not - it costs nothing and it is just a nice thing to do.

It all begs one question; how would you locate the owner of an open wifi system in order to ask permission?

Anyway I'm sure it will keep the security folks and lawyers happy for a long time to come.

In the mean time the rest of us just get on life!