[MLB-WIRELESS] Legal question

[rick]

a network is liek a house, just becouse there is a welcome mat(dhcp) and a
open door (no wep) doesnt mean its legal to enter the house and use the
toliet (looking at scat porm)

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Steven Haigh
Sent: Sunday, 30 May 2004 2:13 PM
To: Jason X; melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Legal question


I think the main reason for legal/illegal is your intent. Yes, if you break
a WEP key, then you are breaking into the network and showing intent...

If it auto-connects, and it is your intent to break/abuse a network, then
it's illegal. If you opened up your notebook, and went "oh, it says I have
net access" and browsed a few pages, then I doubt you'd get into trouble for
it.

It all depends on your intentions.

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Signed,
Steven Haigh

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jason X" <jxuereb at optushome.com.au>
To: <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Sunday, May 30, 2004 1:05 PM
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Legal question


> Say you are on your laptop and suddenly your laptop connects to an AP gets
> an IP address and this AP is bridged to the Internet and you are able to
> surf the Internet. Is this illegal? as you are accessing someone elses
> network, even though they issued you the IP Address and allow you onto
> their
> network?
>
> I'd assume cracking a WEP key and gaining entry into the network would
> come
> under hacking or intrusion of some sort but what about in this case, with
> an
> open AP?
>
> Do you need express permission to gain access to any network?
>
> Cheers
> Jason
>
>
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