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Use WiFi, Go Straight To Jail

Next time you think about hopping onto your neighbor's unsecured wireless network, think twice -- you could face jail time. That's the conundrum being faced by a Rockford, Ill. man who had to pay a $250 fine and has a year of court supervision for using the signal from someone else's Wi-Fi network.

The Rockford Register Star reports that David M. Kauchak was sitting in his car and using his laptop to access the unsecured Wi-Fi network of a local non-profit agency. It was in the "wee hours of the morning," the paper reports, and so he wasn't using bandwidth that someone else needed. And police didn't say that he was stealing data or breaking into the network. Networking Pipeline | Blog | Use Wi-Fi -- Go Straight To Jail

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