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Old 09-10-2010, 07:01 AM   #24
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Originally Posted by abigsmurf View Post
The law only applies to people who know they are stealing someone else's wifi. The police have to prove that it was wilful and not accidental to get a conviction. They won't get a conviction if you can say that your device just automatically went to the first wifi connection it found or if the person involved wasn't technically minded enough to understand how wifi works.
Do you know of any device that will automatically connect to an unknown WiFi connection without asking first? I don't.

Doesn't the old adage "ignorance of the law is no excuse" apply here? If you break the law you break it; to the best of my knowledge, "willful intent" is not a requirement for prosecution or conviction.
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