Is using someone else's wifi a sin?

[LilyM]

It is pretty cool having Netflex on a gaming console, the picture quality is OUTSTANDING.

I have 7.5 down Centruy Link DSL and seeing a comment that speed might be comproised with Wifi, so I downloaded a speed test app for my phone and tested at 6.40 down and 1.1 up.

Before I upgraded my modem last year that included wifi capability, most of my neighbors had secured wifi access. To be honest, in this day and age, those who don’t are the naive ones thinking that nothing can go wrong from it when all of a sudden they get a notice from their ISP notifying them of illegal downloading from their IP address.

My brother-in-law who is a tech geek was able to get my mom & step-dad set up on an unsecured wifi, but you cann’t even get the signal in the driveway, much less sitting in a parked car in the street in front of the house.

Naive? Absolutely. So are the people in my examples who leave windows open and unlocked cars in the drive with the key in the ignition. None of these are anything I would ever personally do, nor should anyone.

But, as with the other two examples, two wrongs do not make a right. So the fact that someone is naive doesn’t give you or me the right to use/take their property, be that their wifi or anything else.