RE: Borrow a neighbor's WiFi connection and go to jail?

["Gary Funck" <gary () intrepid com>]

Coderman opined:
> this doesn't matter; in most places totally open == no expectation of
> privacy or access restriction.
> [...]
> grabbing open wireless == fine.
> breaking into private wireless == crime.
> breaking into private wireless and gathering info for secondary
> offenses == many crimes.

Hmmm, consider the following: if I leave the front door to my house
unlocked and ajar, is that an open invitation for you to come
inside to get out of the rain?  Wouldn't you still be trespassing?

Do the laws really make a distinction between encrypted and
open wireless?  Or is that more of a practical distinction?



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