Moral Dilemma - Do I take advantage of "free" Broadband

DKLS

Am in a rented flat for another couple of months until my house purchase is ready to move into. Flat is in a swanky development, and was playing around with new laptop, and discovered not 1 but 3 connections.
So what do I do, sign up for my own or do I say nowt, and because they havent protected their connection should I use it anyway?

woo

It is illegal for you to use their wireless networks, whether they have protected their networks or not.
sign up for you own..

albertross_2

If you use it, your transmissions, emails, passwords are also unencrypted, and can be picked up with a sniffer.

johnmc

Find out whose it is and ask them.

You never know they MAY have left it open deliberately :-) (yeh, right!).

amcluesent

You could argue that by broadcasting an advertisement like this, you are being offered an "invitation to treat" for the internet service. If you connect OK, they have accepted your offer and a contract formed.

There's no moral issue here.

Gabriel-Ernest

Sign up for your own.

newmoney_3

Are you sure that the flat does not come with Broadband? Some of these flats include free broadband! However personally I would get my own as then you are running your own PC and everything is much more secure.

DKLS

The flat doesnt come with broadband as part of the tenancy, and the 3 networks I see are Bulldog/Virgin/BT so unlikely that its a development access, more likely its individuals.

superscaper

amcluesent wrote:

You could argue that by broadcasting an advertisement like this, you are being offered an "invitation to treat" for the internet service. If you connect OK, they have accepted your offer and a contract formed.

There's no moral issue here.

That's certainly not how it has already played out in the courtroom, it was treated as bandwidth theft. Legally leaving a wireless unsecure is NOT an invitation. You have to get express permission from the internet subscriber. Even if you do it may be against the t & cs of the ISP.

startrekker

Use it, people who are senseless enough to leave their access it open deserve to be taken advantage off.

superscaper

startrekker wrote:

Use it, people who are senseless enough to leave their access it open deserve to be taken advantage off.

I suppose you check whether people have left their doors unlocked and rob them if they have because it's their own fault ?!?