safesax2002

Originally Posted by zanesmurf

On one hand, to accomplish what you described, those resources (printer, folders, or mapped drives) must be shared in the first place. Generally, this is not the default. If you wasted my ink & paper, I would be quite angry. Regardless of intent, you can not be completely sure how the owner will respond. Furthermore, printing your information would be evidential, and litigiously handy.

I would have to agree. It kind of follows this thread's subject. But instead of using a service, you would be using an actual product (ink). And everybody knows how expensive ink is. If someone did that to me (they would have to know how to access it first), I would be royally pissed off and I would consult a lawyer relative to see what can be done. I would gain finacially as it would be pointless for a few sheets of paper, but I would definately use litigation to make you stop.

Now, if this is a friend/spouse/relative (or if you are really wanting to mess with some heads you can go to Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. (but don't get caught)) and you want to play a prank, by all means go ahead. It's fun. By the way, the software you would want to use is HP Mobile Printing. Do a search on Aximsite for wireless printing. I remember seeing a link recently. HP doesn't offer it anymore but it is free. Otherwise, there are pay options out there.

Also, don't take the previous paragraph as contradicting myself. Retailers make a ton of money off of the their ink alone, not to mention the equipment themselves (it's not near as much but they still make a good profit). If it is done enough, they will probably disable the wireless portion for a while anyway.

I hope this helps.

safesax2002

Originally Posted by aktee

It's their problem if they didn't secure the network. I mean. I got 85% signal Quality in my whole house, from my rich neighbor who owns 2 benz and 2 bmw. And it's Unprotected... I'm not stealing his bandwith, he's sharing it with me. The same way he uses my water hose because his isn't long enought. The same way he uses my parking spot because I only have a bike and he has 4 cars. Yet, we never talked to each other. We never agreed to share those things, it's just.. grrr. Anyway.. by what you guys are saying, I can go to prison if I download my 6kb of emails using an unprotected wifi spot. I know stealing is stealing, but, in my mind, there are levels of stealing. Stealing a bank and stealing a candy AIN'T the same thing, for me. It is the same action, but not the same thing.. anyhoo, that's my 2 cents. some people should just chill a little bit more... it's not like we're dling porn on the axim..

Now I doubt he is hooking up to your water supply. Borrowing a hose is one thing, but using their actual water is a big no no. Same thing with electricity. I don't know how many times I have seen a story or heard of someone that plugged into someone else's house without permission and had the cops called on them. The same applies with Wifi in my opinion. You are stealing a service but I do agree that there are different degrees. Just look at the legal system. You have theft of goods, theft of services, grand theft, identity theft, etc. They all have their own degrees of severity.

Now if your neighbor says it's OK, by all means keep doing it. He should ask you to use your parking space. If it gets to the point where it really angers you, block it off (Kind of like Wifi and encryption). Now I must be honest and say that if I was out of town and needed to look up an address really quick, I would probably search out an open wifi connection. I wouldn't feel good about it and would definitely feel guilty, constantly looking around to see if someone is watching me. I wouldn't feel guilty in my hometown because a lot of the access points that I know of I setup myself and I asked permission. The ones that I didn't setup, I still asked permission because I know the people.

In regards to the idiot in the CNN story, he should have left when the owner initially saw him. He obviously felt guilty that he was doing it, otherwise he wouldn't have snapped his laptop shut when the owner came out to see what he was doing.