找到两个entry:
1, 一篇论文 The author, an attorney in San Francisco, serves as an
advisor to the Cyberspace Committee of the California Bar and as Chair of the IP Section of the
San Francisco Bar Association Barristers Club.
IV. CONCLUSION—AVOIDING LIABILITY, SEEKING REMEDIES,
CONSIDERING POLICY
As a general matter, until the courts and legislatures better define
the legal status of Wi-Fi arrangements, the piggy-backing Wi-Fi user
should simply stop the practice of accessing others’ open WLANs,
absent an explicit agreement or notice. If a Wi-Fi interloper must
continue, he or she should avoid heavy downloading activity (music,
games, movies, etc.) that has a tendency to overburden the network
and may amount to recoverable damages. Similarly, sapping a
residential neighbor’s Internet service in lieu of paying for one’s own
seems potentially more culpable than accessing signals in a business
area while on a lunch break.
另一篇是一个blog entry http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2005/08/eff15-how-i-became-geek-crusader
I hope you're not reading this blog entry using somebody's open wireless network. It could get you arrested for trespassing. Earlier this month, a Florida man was arrested for sitting outside somebody's house in his car and using their open wifi network. What the hell? The network was open, people. But as Engadget reports, another guy was arrested for the same thing in the UK, and was found guilty last week of "dishonestly obtaining an electronic communications service." Law enforcement in both instances claimed that the problem with accessing an open wifi network is that it allows people to commit crimes anonymously. And yet we have only a very few examples of such crimes, compared to the millions of examples of happy people using open networks without doing anything illegal.
还有一个complaint:
Florida, the state known for not being able to keep pants on their spammers, has become what is believed to be the first state in the nation to prosecute someone for using someone else’s open wifi.
Mind you, there is no evidence that Benjamin Smith III did anything else illegal while accessing the Internet through Richard Dinon’s unsecured open wireless access point in a residential neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida. It appears that he is guilt of - only - using that open wifi to get out to the Internet. Which is “unauthorized access of a computer network”. Which is a third-degree felony in Florida.
http://www.eff.org/files/20040819_OSPBestPractices.pdf Here is recommendation to people who open their wifi for internet connection.