Report: Singapore teen faces 3 years' jail for tapping into another's wireless Internet
"A Singapore teenager has been charged with tapping into someone else's wireless Internet connection, a crime that carries a penalty of up to three years in jail, a newspaper reported Saturday."
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Wireless@SG Programme
Wireless@SG is a wireless broadband programme developed by IDA as part of its Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure initiative. It will be run and developed in the next two years by three local wireless operators who will deploy a wireless broadband network in Singapore. Users can enjoy free, both in-door and outdoor seamless wireless broadband access with speeds of up to 512kbps at most public areas.
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Ummmm........ Does anyone, besides myself, see the irony of these articles? It's hilarious! What if you accidentally connected to a private network while attempting to connect to a public network? And said private network was not protected by its ignoramous owner who then proceeded to complain to the authorities? Make it a nuisance or at least mildy annoying to connect to your network and they won't bother. Guuh... what's wrong with these people.
Thursday, December 14, 2006
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3 years? I'm astounded.
If he had been doing this long-term, and sneakily using his neighbor's internet without paying for it, maybe, just maybe, I could understand. But the article claims he only did this "on May 13." It astounds me that because one day he surfed the Internet using someone else's connection, he'll be punished for 3 years.
Crazy.
Indeed. I think problems like these occur a lot more frequently, although people don't bother to report them.
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