From: "Andrew Warren" Sent: Thursday, August 12, 2004 5:38 PM That's exactly the example I kept coming up with. If the door is closed even unlocked, it is still breaking and entering. If the door is open it is not. It would probably be trespassing, but without no trespassing signs, I'm not sure even that would be illegal. I can use your driveway to turn my car around without breaking any laws. If I enter your house through an open front door and leave as soon as you ask me to, I don't think I've broken any laws. In any case, the analogy is not perfect. To trespass, I need to physically be on your property. The same is not true to access your wireless router. If anything, you're trespassing on my property by putting your radio waves on my property :). Jason > Jason S wrote: > > > I don't think there is any legal issue with accessing an unsecured > > access point. If you're breaking encryption to get in, it's a > > different story. As far as I know, the laws don't cover open > > points, but I'm not a lawyer :) > > If I leave the front door to my house unlocked and you walk in > without my permission, you might not be guilty of breaking and > entering, but you're certainly trespassing. > > -Andrew > > === Andrew Warren -- aiw@cypress.com > === Principal Design Engineer > === Cypress Semiconductor Corporation > === > === Opinions expressed above do not > === necessarily represent those of > === Cypress Semiconductor Corporation > > -- > http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! > email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body