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What is the risk of connecting to Internet wirelessly using someone else's unsecured network?
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∙ 15y ago
Connecting to someone else's unsecured wireless network without their permission is against the law. If the owner of the network discovers that you are using his/her connection then he/she has the right to take you to court, as anything illegal that you do on that network would be traced back to them. While in some places it may not be against the law to use an unsecured access point, you should know that the owner of the access point can, in theory, intercept all the traffic you sent through her connection and/or identify your computer, by a unique identifier that your network card sends out (it's called MAC address, or hardware address or link layer address) with each communication. You can practically disable this unique identifier by changing it to various random values, provided the software to do so.
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