roaming the street for broadband

[macspeedy]

out of curiosity does anyone have a name of software that can find or even piggyback someone on my streets wireless connection. obviously im on the internet but during a scan on my psp i found several different wireless signals in theory i could buy a wireless adapter but how does one go about 'piggybacking the signal or even bypassing the routers codes ? out of curiosity ????

[vehelpfulguy]

Note that the police recently cautioned people for doing this, driving round in their car. See here

http://www.mobilitysite.com/2007/04/stealing_w ifi_is_stealing_say_the_boys_i.php

Of course, as you say, your question is just of of curiosity.

[Phantaxus]

I would argue that if their conection is open/unencrypted then they deserve to have other people using it

[Ethel]

http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?news id=9029


Glad you're only curious.

[mrbumblebee]

Would you give us your bank details macspeedy. Just out of curiosity you understand.

[macspeedy]

i dont know how a mac address is even the same as a bank account address so stop talking poo piggybacking a signal is not the same as cracking bank account details stop being silly

[Fitzer]

It's still theft of service and the 'if they're unsecured they're asking for it' argument doesn't work either, if you leave your door unlocked you may well get burgled but whoever did it would still be guilty.

[macspeedy]

this really wasnt supposed to be a legal debate the question was out of general interest i wondered if the procedure was possible im not interested in the legalities of some sucker leaving there door open and asking for a burglary its not as if were talking of stealing someones belongings for our own gain its more like surely if someones dsl connection is on unlimited downloads they wont be charged for another system using unused bandwidth if anyone suffers from this it would be the over extortionate internet providers who loose yet another �/$2000 a year for a service that really doesnt cost that much to run ,who has the moral high ground but thats another question

[macspeedy]

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