Drive-by WiFi?
Trina L.C. Sonnenberg
If something is worth having, it is likely to be worth stealing, and WiFi is no exception. Drive-by WiF is when a person drives around until they find an unsecured Internet connection, parks, pulls out their laptop, and uses that network connection to access the Internet. It may seem harmless, but it is illegal. You paid for that bandwidth, and no one else should use it without your permission. You paid for your car, and if a person drives off in it, without your permission, it is called Grand Theft Auto. Recently, I came across someone from the Norwood (Colorado) area, who pointed out to me all of his favorite places to steal WiFi, and how it is very difficult to do in Telluride because the business owners there have caught on to it happening and have secured their networks against it.
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