url URL date not supplied after discovering an open wireless net available from his sofa steven hackers levy interviewed lawmen academics and wifi activists about the legality and ethics of using open wireless access points i downloaded my mail and checked media news on the web when i confessed this to fbi agent bill shore he spared the handcuffs the fbi wouldn t waste resources on that he sniffed now i know that if it did it would be hard to argue that i broke a law what s more i certainly didn t feel illegal because and this is the point of all that war driving and chalking and node stumbling when you get used to wireless the experience feels more and more like a god given right one day we may breathe bandwidth like oxygen and arguing its illegality will be unthinkable link NUMBER discuss NUMBER _thanks steven NUMBER _ NUMBER URL NUMBER URL NUMBER URL 