Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Exercise 5

Prepare an argument for or against the proposition that the following is ethical behavior. While visiting a friend in another city you turn on your laptop and your wireless adapter senses a strong signal of an unsecured access point named siren-island. You connect to it and use Internet access throughout the weekend. Does the argument change if the time period is not just a weekend but unlimited (you are not just visiting but you live there) and the access point name obviously relates to the person who lives in the next apartment?

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Ethics of using an Unsecured Wireless Network

The problem speculates on the ethics of using an Unsecured Wireless Network to access the internet. Using an unknown and unsecured wireless network in not only unethical and illegal, it is also highly insecure for connected systems. The owner might have installed monitoring tools that may access secure data within the system.