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Originally Posted by desertgrandma
It may not be illegal, but it is certainly negligence. Failing to take proper precautions.
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Originally Posted by rlauzon
You keep asserting that it's negligence without backing it up with any argument.
So I'll ask yet again: how is it negligence to have an open network?
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I think the "failing to take proper precautions" that she mentioned.
In the same way that it is not a criminal offence to leave the door of your premises(*) unlocked when no-one is in, but if some one then waltzes in and does something illegal then you would be considered, at the very best, naive and a bit stupid.
Although your arguments suggest you think people should leave their front doors unlocked, as if they claim to have secured their premises by locking the door, and a criminal gains entry by picking the lock, then you must have co-operated with the criminals.
The jury and/or judge may not be tech savvy, but the prosecution should explain things to them in a way a lay person can understand - or call witnesses who can. I'm sure there must be plenty of things brought before court in which the jury are not experts...
(* house, car, office, shop etc etc and so forth)