NinjaRat

Not living in your fine country, I have no idea how the regs affect wardriving- I do suspect that actually horning in on someone's wireless (without their permission, of course) is at the least in a legal gray area. Not that I particularly *care* if it is, y'unnerstand, since I've a larcenous streak a mile wide meself, but your post caught my eye since I spend at least three hours a day troubleshooting wireless customers for slow throughput. So the next time I get one of those calls I'll be thinking "Hey, Mr. Joe Schmoe in Maine, the reason your wi-fi is buggy is because there's a gweep biking around the area borrowing your connection for purposes unknown. Don't worry, gweeps won't damage your pc. Just give it a few minutes and said gweep will move on."

Not (as I said before) that I'd dream of actually bringing this to anyone in authority's attention- it's just amusing on a "six degrees of separation" kind of way how people's lives intersect like this. :)