War-driving story with an interesting quote:

Jennifer Granick, director of Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, sees the unauthorized use of open wireless connections as moral and legal.

A practicing lawyer and lecturer at the Stanford Law School, Granick said considering unauthorized wireless use a terrorist act amounts to idiocy.

"What's illegal is unauthorized access to a computer system. I think it's legal if there is a wireless network and there's no security on it," Granick said.

"Certainly you can use the network in a way that reduces the other person's quality of service, and that begins to become a problem, but that's always a problem when you have a shared resource."

Granick is a respected legal scholar on issues relating to the Internet and security.
posted by mt at 15:15