* Mooching Wi-Fi * Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail * IBM offers grid-like application processing * AOL to give away spammer loot * Today on Layer 8
If you connect to someone else’s open Wi-Fi router and start using that broadband Internet service you are: a) guilty of stealing from the service provider; b) committing an unethical act; c) really cheap; d) not guilty; or e) all of the above. The correct answer is wide open to debate. But the range of possible answers is indicative of the variety of passionately held opinions and legal murk on this question, which gained renewed attention last month when news reports surfaced about the arrest of Benjamin Smith, who St. Petersburg, Fla., police allege “wilfully, knowingly and without authorization” accessed a home Wi-Fi network from a parked car in front of someone’s house. Mooching Wi-Fi http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805widernet.html?net&story=080805widernet
If you connect to someone else’s open Wi-Fi router and start using that broadband Internet service you are:
a) guilty of stealing from the service provider; b) committing an unethical act; c) really cheap; d) not guilty; or e) all of the above.
The correct answer is wide open to debate. But the range of possible answers is indicative of the variety of passionately held opinions and legal murk on this question, which gained renewed attention last month when news reports surfaced about the arrest of Benjamin Smith, who St. Petersburg, Fla., police allege “wilfully, knowingly and without authorization” accessed a home Wi-Fi network from a parked car in front of someone’s house.
Mooching Wi-Fi
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/080805widernet.html?net&story=080805widernet
Ex WorldCom CFO Sullivan gets 5 years in jail
Former WorldCom CFO Scott Sullivan Thursday was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in engineering the $11 billion accounting fraud that led to the bankruptcy of the telecommunications powerhouse.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081105-worldcom-sullivan-jail.html?net&story=08105-worldcom-sullivan-jail
IBM offers grid-like application processing
IBM this week announced upgraded software that the company says will let enterprise IT managers automatically distribute application workloads across multiple servers as well as process batch and long-running jobs with spare capacity.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081105-ibm-webshere.html?net&story=081105-ibm-websphere
AOL to give away spammer loot
In its own twist on letting the punishment fit the crime, AOL is disciplining a spammer who helped the company win an anti-spam lawsuit by giving away a substantial stash of loot purchased with profits from his illegal business. The prizes are part of assets recovered from spammer Braden Bournival in the first lawsuit AOL filed under the federal CAN-SPAM act of 2003.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/081105-aol-spammer.html?net&story=081105-aol-spammer
Today on Layer 8, where we have no problems with our Eagles contract:
MIT develops Jerk-O-Meter; the best keyboard ever; the loneliest guy at Microsoft; and is text messaging finally catching on?; all this today and more at your home for not-just-networking news.
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