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From: "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com>
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Subject: Re: TV Judge Issues Restraining Order; Threatens Arrest Warrant
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 02:12:56 -0000 (UTC)
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Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>Tue, 9 Apr 2024 00:17:25 -0000 (UTC) Adam H. Kerman <ahk@chinet.com>:
>>Rhino <no_offline_contact@example.com> wrote:
>>>Mon, 08 Apr 2024 22:14:45 +0000 BTR1701 <no_email@invalid.invalid>:  

>>>>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.