According to 6 old bitties up at the sandwich shop.
a long time local merchant was on his computer ,during the slow times of the sales day.

a 14 y.o. kid did something on wifi and found out that he was doing porn at work. ( his own business)


well the other six ladies , not the old spinster bitties , got wind of it and four months later the shop closed up.

I don't know how how the kid found this out w/o being in the store, but scandal ensued.

according to bittie #3
" was not just girlie pictures, but but ! it was both men and! women and they were movies !

so is what the 14 y.o. did, legal ? how hard is it to accomplish ?

To easy to tease you by asking if you are one of the 6 so I’ll leave it to someone else.

First off, I thought it was biddie.....

Not too hard to siphon WiFi, especially if the signal is unencrypted.
Also not too hard to set up software to “monitor” devices on that network.

The legality? Well, depending on a few things, the yoot could be guilty of “stealing” bandwidth.

In Illinois it is illegal.

...An Illinois man pleaded guilty this week to remotely accessing another computer system without the owner's approval and was handed one year of court supervision and a US$250 fine. David Kauchak was spotted using his laptop inside of his parked car in the middle of the night by a police officer this past January. The officer discovered that Kauchak was using an unprotected wireless access point belonging to a not-for-profit agency and cited him....

https://arstechnica.com/uncategorized/2006/03/6447-2/

State law:

720 ILCS § 5/17-50 to -55

The wireless router maintains logs of web traffic. If the business set up the wireless router and left the default username and password for the administrative account, viewing the logs with a web browser is simple.

so could the business owner have prevented his computer from transmitting his porn out of his four walls?

there are 3 homes and four other business bldgs within chipping wedge distance.

do all computers transmit stuff out ?

Oh, gee golly! Moving pictures showing nude people fornicating?! Heaven forbid!



I guess I don't get the "scandal". Sounds like an adult of legal age was viewing porn in private on his own network.

Yeah, it's generally not a good idea to be viewing porn at work. But he's the owner of the business, it's his own computer, and he's using his own network. So long as he wasn't doing it openly in front of customers, then he can do whatever he wants in the privacy of his own property.

Sounds like the biddies' qualms are simply from the puritanical point of view of "nobody should be viewing porn, ever".

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Originally posted by bendable:
so could the business owner have prevented his computer from transmitting his porn out of his four walls?

Some simple means would be to put a password on the wireless network, and/or hide the network from being discoverable by others' wireless network cards. That way the kid couldn't connect to his network and sniff out his online activity.

There are also other, more sophisticated ways to secure what you're doing online, using specialized software, VPNs, etc.

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do all computers transmit stuff out ?

Depends. If your computer is not connected to a network or the Internet, you're not sending anything out.

But if you're connected to a network or the Internet, either wired or wirelessly, then other people (including website hosts, internet service providers, IT departments, and potentially other people on the same network) can see some or all of what you're doing on the Internet.