Interlopers on the WLAN

["Philip J. Koenig" <pjklist () ekahuna com>]

Please forgive if this has been covered before, I'm not reading the 
group daily these days.

Is it reasonable to assume that those who access WLANs without the 
permission of the owner are violating the same cybercrime laws that 
apply to any unauthorized access of a computer network?

Some have recently argued this is not the case if someone doesn't 
"enable the security features", but personally I don't see the 
distinction between this kind of activity and anything normally 
prohibited by laws such as California Penal Code section 502a and 
various other cybercrime laws.  It doesn't seem to me that the law 
makes a distinction about whether the network in question was secured 
or not. (what does 'secured' mean anyway?)

TIA,

Phil

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Philip J. Koenig                                       
pjklist () ekahuna com
Electric Kahuna Systems -- Computers & Communications for the New 
Millenium


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