Highland Ham wrote:

By the way it is the same situation here in the north of Scotland .
Driving in Inverness you can freely access WiFi points allover town
,from commercial companies to hotels..........but not at locations where
you would expect it ....like 'Starbuck' and bookshops like 'Borders'

This will go on until the Scotish police start doing what the English do.
They track traffic at the ISP level looking for "kidde porn". Once they
find it, they locate the person sending or receiving the files.

They have no trouble getting a warrant and come in and arrest the owner of
the account and confiscate their equipment.

As soon as they do this, "users" will go looking for unencrypted
networks and use them, if they don't know I don't know Scotish law, but
in most places the owner of the network is responsible for what is done
with it.

There was a case in Canada of a man found driving five miles per hour
in a residential neighborhood. When the police stopped him, his pants
were around his ankles and there was a laptop on his lap.

Canada unlike most places has a law prohibiting using other people's internet
connections without permission. Most places don't.

Geoff.

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