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Originally Posted by curstpriest
If a network is left open/unsecured, anyone may freely connect to it.
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Nuh-nuh-nuh - please don't do this
If you connect to a *private* network - i.e. something owned by someone else, even if they ARE as stupid as to leave it unencrypted - then you are committing tresspass under UK law; that's how several people have been prosecuted in the past - not through the computer misuse act, when it comes to hacking.
Basically, look at it this way - your neighbour has left their wireless network open - would you log on and use it?
And - your neighbour has left the front door to their house open - would you go in and take things?