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Last updated: 26 August, 2007 - Published 11:04 GMT
 
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Wifi piggybacking: is it theft?
 
Wireless worker.
The trend is for wireless networks to be secured.
Now have you ever done it?

You switch on your computer, a laptop maybe, and someone nearby has a wireless connection, an unsecured one which you can use . . . And so you do.

Is that theft? Police in the UK have arrested someone for doing this in London.

He was sitting on a garden wall using someone's connection to check out the internet.

Julian Baggini is a philosopher in Bristol and he agreed to philosophise about this for us. The question is: is it theft?

First broadcast 24th August.

 
 
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