How Illegal is this? (house)

littleknowitall · 01-16-2007, 12:16 PM

My mate brought his laptop down my flat and somehow i have an internet conection :S i think i might be sealig it, what are my chances? how bad would it be if i got caught? is i a glitch or am i staling someone elses? is it that bad? who reckons i keep doing it?

Ma Cherie · 01-16-2007, 12:20 PM

nahh, that called wireless internet, and you seem to have a hot spot in your house, its that simple, just like some of the coffe shops have wi-fi and hotspots, my friend has on at her house, and there one somewhere over on my couch by the wall

littleknowitall · 01-16-2007, 12:25 PM

Oh wow thats cool, im gonna invest in a labop now
or rent ryans, hehe.

~~The Unfan~~ · 01-16-2007, 01:17 PM

My sister lives right across the street and if I go outside I can pick up her internet.

Barnard17 · 01-16-2007, 04:04 PM

If they don't encode it then, to my knowledge, it's easy pickings.

Sparky · 01-16-2007, 04:08 PM

your good for now..

my friend bought a macbook and thought he was the worlds biggest genuis until his neighbor found out, and then just password-protected it.

thats probobly what will happen, but my dad just bough a super-nice receriver thing, so he picks up wifi from the coffe shop a couple blocks away.

QueenNothing · 02-02-2007, 10:39 AM

go for it...u pick up someone elses wireless internet-go for it!

bushaintmypresident · 02-02-2007, 01:58 PM

I don't know what your laws in your area are but I use other peoples WiFi all the time.

tdoc210 · 02-02-2007, 09:26 PM

doesnt always work, you may need a WEP key

Sneer · 02-02-2007, 09:27 PM

its the people who your nicking the connection off who are to blame, if its such a crime they should be more stringent with their internet protection.

01-16-2007, 12:16 PM	#1 (permalink)
littleknowitall Pow! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,671	How Illegal is this? My mate brought his laptop down my flat and somehow i have an internet conection :S i think i might be sealig it, what are my chances? how bad would it be if i got caught? is i a glitch or am i staling someone elses? is it that bad? who reckons i keep doing it?

01-16-2007, 12:20 PM	#2 (permalink)
Ma Cherie The Forums Sadistic Ghost Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: beyond midnight, in the abyss of time, the syren in the night Posts: 457	nahh, that called wireless internet, and you seem to have a hot spot in your house, its that simple, just like some of the coffe shops have wi-fi and hotspots, my friend has on at her house, and there one somewhere over on my couch by the wall __________________ I'm not a freak on a leash, I'm just the freak holding the leash. http://www.myspace.com/yukiko_mori

01-16-2007, 04:04 PM	#5 (permalink)
Barnard17 My home? Discabled, Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bristol, UK Posts: 204	If they don't encode it then, to my knowledge, it's easy pickings. __________________ Vita brevis, Occasio praeceps

02-02-2007, 09:26 PM	#9 (permalink)
tdoc210 ashes against the grain Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: new hampsha Posts: 2,617	doesnt always work, you may need a WEP key __________________ We went back there and they had come and hacked off every inoculated arm. There they were in a pile. A pile of little arms. And I remember... I... I... I cried. I wept like some grandmother. I wanted to tear my teeth out. I didn't know what I wanted to do. And I want to remember it. I never want to forget it. I never want to forget. And then I realized... like I was shot... like I was shot with a diamond... a diamond bullet right through my forehead. And I thought: My God... the genius of that.

02-02-2007, 09:27 PM	#10 (permalink)
Sneer Let it drip Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 5,430	its the people who your nicking the connection off who are to blame, if its such a crime they should be more stringent with their internet protection. __________________ LastFM Sneer's Emporium of Sound Fright Team radio show

01-16-2007, 12:25 PM	#3 (permalink)
littleknowitall Pow! Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 1,671	Oh wow thats cool, im gonna invest in a labop now or rent ryans, hehe.

01-16-2007, 01:17 PM	#4 (permalink)
~~The Unfan~~ Account Disabled Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Methville Posts: 2,116	My sister lives right across the street and if I go outside I can pick up her internet.

01-16-2007, 04:08 PM	#6 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	your good for now.. my friend bought a macbook and thought he was the worlds biggest genuis until his neighbor found out, and then just password-protected it. thats probobly what will happen, but my dad just bough a super-nice receriver thing, so he picks up wifi from the coffe shop a couple blocks away.

02-02-2007, 10:39 AM	#7 (permalink)
QueenNothing music=life Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Kansas Posts: 152	go for it...u pick up someone elses wireless internet-go for it!

02-02-2007, 01:58 PM	#8 (permalink)
bushaintmypresident Groupie Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: The US of A Posts: 20	I don't know what your laws in your area are but I use other peoples WiFi all the time.