{"id":153,"date":"2007-04-22T08:33:44","date_gmt":"2007-04-22T06:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/?p=153"},"modified":"2007-04-22T08:33:49","modified_gmt":"2007-04-22T06:33:49","slug":"be-carefull-do-not-steal-your-neighbors-wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/be-carefull-do-not-steal-your-neighbors-wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"Be carefull &#8230; do not steal your neighbor&#8217;s WIFI!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Do not know whether we have laws in this country that governs this but the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acts.co.za\/ect_act\/\">ECT act<\/a> might have something on it.&nbsp; See in the UK a <a href=\"http:\/\/yro.slashdot.org\/article.pl?sid=07\/04\/17\/1956233&amp;from=rss\">person was fined<\/a> for using somebody&#8217;s WIFI without the persons permission.<\/p>\n<p>Just had a look at all the WIFI connections available to me from the houses around me in my complex and there is a couple that is open with no security what so ever. How ethical and legal would it be if I just connect to their WIFI and started downloading?&nbsp; With the restricted bandwidth that we have in SA, this can save me a bit of bandwidth for other things.&nbsp; Neighbors, do not worry, I will not steal your bandwidth, but please secure your WIFI routers.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/wifi\" rel=\"tag\">wifi<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/law\" rel=\"tag\">law<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ect%20act\" rel=\"tag\">ect act<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/bandwidth\" rel=\"tag\">bandwidth<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do not know whether we have laws in this country that governs this but the ECT act might have something on it.&nbsp; See in the UK a person was fined for using somebody&#8217;s WIFI without the persons permission. Just had <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/be-carefull-do-not-steal-your-neighbors-wifi\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Be carefull &#8230; do not steal your neighbor&#8217;s WIFI!<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"amazonpipp_noncename":"","amazon-product-isactive":"","amazon-product-single-asin":"","amazon-product-content-location":"","amazon-product-content-hook-override":"","amazon-product-excerpt-hook-override":"","amazon-product-singular-only":"","amazon-product-amazon-desc":"","amazon-product-show-gallery":"","amazon-product-show-features":"","amazon-product-newwindow":"","amazon-product-show-list-price":"","amazon-product-show-used-price":"","amazon-product-show-saved-amt":"","amazon-product-timestamp":"","amazon-product-new-title":"","amazon-product-use-cartURL":"","amazon_featured_post_meta_key":"","_amazon_featured_alt":"","amazon-product-template":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.henriska.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}