[TRS-80 vet]

My neighbor's unsecured wireless signal is in my house. Can I log on?

Just a topic for debate. I have my own.

 

[Chicon]

IMO, It could be considered like the story of an apple tree near a fence : some apples fall in the neighbour's property. Therefore, the neighbour has a right to pick them and to eat them.

 

[Littlefield]

My neighbor's unsecured wireless signal is in my house. Can I log on?

Just a topic for debate. I have my own.

Depends on how well you like your neighbor . Like if they called the cops last week for that tame party you threw ,then yes .
But probably smart to let them know.You know be a good neighbor deal.

 

[sy2]

My neighbor's unsecured wireless signal is in my house. Can I log on?

Just a topic for debate. I have my own.

Can you? Yes.

Should you? That's trickier

If it was my connection I wouldn't mind if my neighbor jumped on, really, but my connection is also slow so if a few people jumped on it would slow to a crawl. That would piss me off.

I'd probably notify them that it's unlocked and let them know what the dangers of that situation are. Unless they been less-than-neighborly recently, in which case surf away

 

[Dzurlord]

If you do it may get you in trouble.

http://money.cnn.com/2005/07/07/technology/personaltech/wireless_arrest/

Of course, this person was outside the guys house in a car, not in his own house. I would still think it would be a crime.

good luck.

 

[Knotbored]

reword the question a little and ask
"I can hear my neighbors telephone on my CB radio, can I participate in the conversation?"
or
"My neighbor leaves his mower parked near my lot-can I use it to mow when he isn't home?"

silly silly silly
He purchased the service and probably won't object, but barter something of value for its use.

 

[Dzurlord]

He purchased the service and probably won't object, but barter something of value for its use.

Actually he should object, As you could easily connect to his internal computers. Of course many of the Internet companies will mention wireless security in passing but don't really bother to explain it to anyone.

 

[WarC]

In the county I live in, accessing another home user's wireless network is considered tresspassing.

You can sniff for them, and you can gather packets from them, but once you connect to the network and start exchanging packets, it becomes illegal in a lot of places in the US.

In some areas though there is no set legal ramification for doing it.

Either way, the other user would first have to find out that you were using it. The chance of that happening is small (the average user doesn't log into their wireless router/AP to monitor that kind of stuff). At that point they would have to report the infraction to the police or to their service provider. So even in areas where it is illegal, it is unlikely that you would be caught.

I know quite a few people who are internet freeloaders in this way. Especially people that live in condos or apartments, where the wireless network density can be high.

A friend of mine whom I care about a great deal does this to keep in touch with me, even though I've told her it is illegal! She sets her laptop up in the kitchen of her condo, and it finds sufficient signal strength from an internet connection she does not own.

 

[Lpar]

It's also likely that the network appears but you would need a password to login to their network. I know that our network shows up on my neighbors list of available networks but we have a very secure encrypted password so it doesn't really matter.

 

[sy2]

My neighbor's unsecured wireless signal is in my house. Can I log on?

 

[Lpar]

My neighbor's unsecured wireless signal is in my house. Can I log on?

Oh.
Nevermind mind then.