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heh, this is a funny topic. I work for a computer company and I was called out to install dsl in a residence (apartment) about a week ago. They had a 2-wire DSL modem (modem/router/wireless in one box) and wanted to hook up another computer across their house with a wireless pci card. When i fired up that card I found 7 OTHER wireless networks of which over half looked to be still at default settings just by looking at their SSID's.
To answer your question, I chose the ethical standpoint, but I cannot be held liable for what each individual tenant in that particular apartment complex does. I'm sure that someone is stealing bandwidth there, but I tried to protect MY customer and explained to them the need to change wireless devices from their defaults. It was a good object lesson for them and made them aware of the fact that there were all these wireless networks available and if they hadn't set theirs up correctly, they could be wide open to "broadband theft"
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