WIFI Use OK
am 05.07.2005 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. Accessing wireless LAN systems operated by others does not constitute a crime under German law, Ulf Buermeyer concludes in his detailed analysis Der strafrechtliche Schutz drahtloser Computernetwerke (WLANs).The converse may be true only for WIFI networks that the operator protects against the use by others, even if such protection consists of the useless WEP encryption scheme. Buermeyers analysis addresses only the use by a visitor of the network for internet access. Other rules would apply if the third party were to seek access to the data on the computer systems bound to the WIFI network.
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