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...houses. It was hard for me to imagine a gang of digital hoboes so hard up for Internet access that they had to squat outside my house, huddled around a Thinkpad. But if they did, I could hardly chase these virtual varmints away with a broom. After all, my network was open. It was as if I had left milk and cookies on the sidewalk. They wouldn't be trespassing on my property. Or would they...
...practice is legal--or moral. The law is kind of fuzzy here, especially since each state has its own definitions of trespass in the virtual world. In California, thanks to a recent state supreme court ruling, it's relatively clear. A former Intel employee who used the company's network without permission to send 35,000 anti-Intel e-mails was cleared of wrongdoing. Since he hadn't injured the network itself, the court ruled, he hadn't broken any trespass...
...unless those hoboes were planting viruses on my system, I would have no right to stop them surfing away. Nor, I soon decided, would I want to. (Charity begins at your home network, I say.) The rain has long since washed my sidewalk clean of double moons. But if you ever happen to wardrive by my house, don't be shy. Knock before you warchalk. You'll find surfing is a lot more comfortable inside the box. --By Chris Taylor...
Those who use the service say they like it. "The connection is great," says Swapan Chakrabarty, 31, a graduate student and network administrator for a software firm, who goes to the Astor Place store about four times a week and stays two to three hours per visit. About the only complaints from wi-fi users are that some stores don't have enough electrical outlets...
...aren't exactly what Starbucks had in mind when it partnered with T-Mobile last year to roll out wireless Internet access in its shops across the country. Now with more than 2,600 Starbucks stores equipped with wi-fi, the duo has created the largest public wi-fi network in the U.S. It is also among the first to test consumers' appetite for paid wireless access outside the home...