Is wardriving legal?

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Originally posted by mshe
Doesn't mean it's legal.

Say I fired my gun and you were standing in front of it. Could I say "Well you were standing in the way of the bullet?" :)

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Thats a pretty crappy analogy to rationalize your point. The problem with it is that Wi-Fi, at least on the consumer level, broadcast signals are adirectional. Where as a gun is going to shoot a bullet where ever you point the muzzle.

If at this level the owner of the signal could control the direction of broadcast (and possibly distance) this would be a non-issue.

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Originally Posted by DAoC

Heh go and try this~ you'll still get arrested for stealing a car whether or not it was fully locked, or unlocked & running. We use wireless at home.. keycode is changed once a month. Even then I think someone would notice if there is a person outside their house 20 hours a day since that's how long it would take to crack the 10 digit code. I see my neighbors wireless network though, but he has it encrypted so cant get on, havn't tried "hacking" into it.

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the stealing a car analogy is flawed due to the fact that you cant accidentally start driving someones car without knowing lol. now you majority of people tend to leave wifi on and can unknowingly connect to someones open wifi. . I don’t feel as though that someone who accidently connects to someone’s network should be penalized due to their lack of security. For example; if I visit my friend’s house and leave my laptop or phone in my car downloading something and my devices mistakenly connect to a local unsecured internet than I did not intentionally connect to their network. all about intent