Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Adam H. Kerman" Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv Subject: Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 02:12:56 -0000 (UTC) Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 46 Message-ID: References: <20240408193545.00004b52@example.com> <20240408215751.00006fca@example.com> Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2024 02:12:57 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c0e7c23ba7de356d770348dfcaa1d305"; logging-data="4046063"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19mTE7eEBLURtjskz4ztEvMxFRKE1jL6Bc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:puxMmk9aYq9YQq7d/mjKTUajyKE= X-Newsreader: trn 4.0-test77 (Sep 1, 2010) Bytes: 3028 Rhino wrote: >Tue, 9 Apr 2024 00:17:25 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman : >>Rhino wrote: >>>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:14:45 +0000 BTR1701 : >>>>This case is amazing at all levels. >>>>https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0LMEL6_b15o >>>>First, we have a guy suing his neighbor because she >>>>password-protected her wi-fi signal, which he had been leeching off >>>>for free, claiming he's entitled to it because the wi-fi waves are >>>>in the air which belongs to everyone. >>>When I was doing DSL support, I once took a call from a guy who >>>needed help configuring his new router. That was a very routine call >>>but when we got to the part of setting a password, he said he didn't >>>want to encrypt his signal. I warned him that he was opening himself >>>up to neighbours stealing his WiFi and that stealing WiFi was a >>>felony in some jurisdictions. He said he already knew that because >>>he was a police officer and that it was a class D felony (I think >>>that's the specific class he cited) in his state, which I believe was >>>California. I finished helping him configure his router without >>>encrypting the signal. I think he was the ONLY customer I ever had >>>that wanted his signal unencrypted in nearly 4 years! >>A Class D felony for use of an unencrypted radio signal? I don't think >>so. >>>. . . >Assuming he actually was a police officer and not just a poser, I >figured he'd know better than me. There's no crime! There are laws against breaking into computer networks, but if there are no accounts and no passwords, there's no crime! It's a radio signal. It's in your home. >Besides, I might be misremembering that it was Class D; it was 20 years >ago after all. Or maybe he said Class D misdemeanour. >Are these "classes" of felonies consistent across all the states or >would a Class D in California be completely different from a Class D in >Illinois? I have no clue.