[ProDigit]

I have 2 stories on 2 sides to share.
About 2 years ago a policeofficer lost in court, when he deliberately left his laptop visible in his car with the car unlocked; in an attempt to catch a thief in action.
There was a thief, and the verdict of the court was that the police officer had tempted people to break into his car leaving the car unlocked with laptop visible (much like the verdict is against people walking naked on the street). And the costs of breaking the glass (thief broke window despite the car being open) was all on the officer!

I found it somewhat similar to transmitting your wifi signal without encryption. Meaning, inviting people to use it.

On the other hand, I believe was it also about 2 years ago?, when a police squad stormed into an old lady's house, arresting her with charges of dealing with child pornography.
Upon further investigation what seemed was that the old lady just had bought internet, not knowing about wireless encoding ofcourse.
It seemed someone in her neighborhood was the cause.

So I don't think it would be fair to get punished (fined, jailed)when you're browsing on someone's unsecured internet connection.
However, I don't like being caught neither because someone is doing illegal business on my internet connection...

It's a pretty hard thing.

What's even more, in Germany I read there's a new technology that allows 26 people living in a radius of a few miles next to eachother, to go on the internet as long as there are minimum 3 modems connected to the internet.
It works on the principle of mesh networking or somehting... But, if you happen to have one of those modems, then it could be someone a few miles away would be doing illegal stuff on your connection.
With that thought in mind it would become very hard to catch the perpetrator, so maybe that's why the law...?