Am I stealing teh internets if....

cancel your official broadband

Should I feel bad for riding behind someone most of the way to work this morning into a head wind?
He was pedaling his little heart out trying to get away from me while i sat behind him.

Were you on his bike?

Scrapper Should I feel bad for riding behind someone most of the way to work this morning into a head wind?
He was pedaling his little heart out trying to get away from me while i sat behind him.

Poor fellow.

You can usually shake a tail by clearing the snot out of your nose or gobbing a snot glob over your head.

Make sure you have enough force though. Failure to do this properly can be most embarrassing as there is a chance that you will end up with saliva and snot in your eye and dripping down your face.

Ahhh, that is really gross.

I did 'participate' in my neighbours broadband for a while in my old flat too. But I would never quit using my own connection
because it is private ! Guys think about it. With a visious mindset you could put a open wireless router in any given living area
and just sniff the usual ports used for email, web, ftp etc.
Then with enough time on your hand if one has the entire traffic captured/protocol it is of course possible to crack the most encryptions
(HTTPS) and retrieve your personal information, passwords etc. So at least identity theft is a serious danger if not an empty bank account.
or things ordered on your Credit Card. I s'pose I am a bit paranoid, but for that reason I keep using my own. But having said that even encrypted
wireless networks are easy to open with KisMAC and a airport switched to passive

StarrerGang But having said that even encrypted
wireless networks are easy to open with KisMAC and a airport switched to passive

I did that and had to reinstall Mac OS X because it totally ate my airport drivers.

andrewleitch86 [quote]StarrerGang But having said that even encrypted
wireless networks are easy to open with KisMAC and a airport switched to passive

I did that and had to reinstall Mac OS X because it totally ate my airport drivers.[/quote]

I read threads about it and used a D-Link dongle recommended in their wiki.
Worked like a dream. insecure packages recorded from one night are enough to break WEP encryption
never managed WPA though

this shit has already been said but im going to say it again.........there are thieves in our society so if you are stupid enough(or don't care) to leave your router unprotected then expect people to steal it..it life!
stealing is wrong......weather its a bike, some polo's or someones Internet.

On the other hand an open access point and no knowledge of how to secure it would be a decent defence against any claims that you doanloaded illegal material (bittorrent) as you could reasonably argue that one of these thieves did.

true.....off to remove the encryption :)

velocity boy On the other hand an open access point and no knowledge of how to secure it would be a decent defence against any claims that you doanloaded illegal material (bittorrent) as you could reasonably argue that one of these thieves did.

i Germany people tried that on RIAA lawsuits for sharing MP3
but you than get done for surpression of evidence or hinderance of investigation. Ignorance is no excuse.
I thought about moving to Sweden just for the filesharing friendly laws but I do not like sweet bread and 9 months of winter...

StarrerGang [quote]velocity boy On the other hand an open access point and no knowledge of how to secure it would be a decent defence against any claims that you doanloaded illegal material (bittorrent) as you could reasonably argue that one of these thieves did.

i Germany people tried that on RIAA lawsuits for sharing MP3
but you than get done for surpression of evidence or hinderance of investigation. Ignorance is no excuse.
I thought about moving to Sweden just for the filesharing friendly laws but I do not like sweet bread and 9 months of winter...[/quote]
I read about that case. Their defence was poor. It's the default setting for routers and you can easily argue that the default settings should be secure enough for consumer use.

Depends who you go through. BE broadband routers are by default secured.