Wireless hijacking under scrutiny
Wireless hijacking under scrutiny
“Gaining unauthorised access to someone else’s network is an offence and people have to take responsibility for their actions. Some people might argue that taking a joy-ride in someone else’s car is not an offence either”.
I am willing to bet that if you left the door open and the keys in the car and broadcasted out to the world it was sitting there, they might just say it was your own damn fault.
People with criminal intentions have, in the past, attempted to use the openness of their own wireless networks to cover their tracks online.
“There have been incidences where paedophiles deliberately leave their wireless networks open so that, if caught, they can say that is wasn’t them that used the network for illegal purposes,” said NetSurity’s Mr Cracknell.
Such a defence would hold little water as the person installing the network, be they a home user or a business, has ultimate responsibility for any criminal activity that takes place on that network, whether it be launching a hack attack or downloading illegal pornography.
So they can charge everyone in this because the person that used it for wrong was trespassing and the other person was guilty because they didnt keep them out?