Interesting article Saturday's Guardian about the "very real" crime of stealing wireless network time. It seems innocuous enough, a victim-less crime, but already 11 people have been arrested for it in the UK... thief

I used to leave me my wireless network open, thinking that if someone wants to stop outside the flat and check their emails while I'm away then that's no skin of my nose. However like many others, I've now put WEP encryption in place because of the supposed risk of someone using my wireless to do naughty things, like look at child porn. As the article points out, the crime is still being committed by the hacker, but it's the thought of getting caught up in it all that probably has people securing their wireless.

This really is is a negative paranoid attitude to have, and against what the internet was all about in the first place.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2212491,00.html