Insanity once Again

These laws are insanity. Yes, I think that there should be protections for people who secure their networks, but open networks are an invitation for people to log on-- an open house, so to speak. It should be up to me, as a broadcaster, to limit access if I don't want anyone receiving my signals, not up to everyone else to not log into an open network.
Take the fellow out in front of the coffee house (I can't believe he lost that case, WTF was that jury thinking?)-- do you think that he even knew that it was a crime? Most of the coffee houses here have unsecured networks and I wouldn't think twice about just popping on their network if I needed to check some email. I can't wait until police start setting up open networks just to ensnare those malicious surfers and email-checkers and make our streets safe once again.

Lock up the ISPs

IMHO it is just common sense to distinguish between an intention and an accident. But there is more going on.

Of course the Internet Service Providers would like to see that everybody locks up their wireless network, because they fear the competition from a free Internet based entirely on our wifi devices. Free as in Bier and Speech. Think about a mesh where network traffic is hopping from neighbour to neighbour to its final destination, without an ISP between, with all the bandwidth avaiable through mutliple parallel wireless instances. Not really a big surprise that some parts of the government are already in the ISPs' pocket (or is it vice versa?!).

hacks

Yea, i remember that maryland dude. He's called l33tz0r and he has mad rep in the 'hacking' community!