BTW, you seem to be a serious “letter of the law” person. Do you ever intentionally drive over the speed limit by even one MPH. Do you always consciously try to come to a “complete stop with rollback” at stop signs and “free right turns on red lights”.
I’m a “spirit of the law” sort of guy. I’ve noticed that the two types have pretty strongly different world views.
I try to judge each situation on it’s own merits.
Obviously if someone got a ticket every time they exceeded the speed limit, then everyone would have lost their license by now. This is why Policemen use their own discretion on who to give a warning to and who to ticket.
Look at the original post to see how much trouble the man is in because he didn’t know how to secure his router. Who would want to run that type of risk.
Would you feel different if you knew that the wifi host was paying usage charges based on packets...
There is a fundamental difference between someone breaking a law for which the violation causes nobody any harm, and breaking a law that deprives another person of the free and full use of their own property.
For example, trespassing through a person’s back yard may not hurt anybody. Siphoning a gallon of gas from their car while walking through their yard deprives them of their property. They are different types of legal violations.
Why not hook a hose up to the neighbor’s tap, and use it to water your grass? after all, it will save you money, and if he didn’t want you to do it, he’d certainly have put a lock on the valve, right?