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Title: Using Neighbor's Wireless Link: Probation


Princess_Sara400 - January 16, 2007 04:53 PM (GMT)
I am so glad they don't have this here cause I would have been in big trouble awhile ago lol
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SINGAPORE (AP) -- A Singaporean teenager who illegally tapped into a neighbor's wireless Internet network - an offense the city-state deems punishable by jail - was placed on 18 months' probation by a district court Tuesday.

The court also ordered Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, to carry out 80 hours of community service after he admitted linking his computer to his neighbor's wireless router to access the Internet without permission.

Tan could have been jailed up to three years and fined 10,000 Singapore dollars (US$6,500).

Senior District Judge Bala Reddy cited a probation report as saying Tan had been addicted to Internet gaming at the time of the offense, adding the teenager had "few friends, if not none."

Reddy said Tan should seek "disciplined and structured psychiatric and psychological intervention" to cure his addiction.

Tan is the first Singaporean to have been prosecuted and convicted for tapping illegally into a wireless Internet network, an offense under the Computer Misuse Act, according to Tan's lawyer, Sam Koh.

A second Singaporean is currently facing 60 charges of illegally accessing wireless Internet networks.


~*Diana*~ - January 16, 2007 06:30 PM (GMT)
Its terrible that a teenager can't find nothing else better to do then to tap into someone elses wireless internet network. :no

racefan9 - January 16, 2007 09:16 PM (GMT)
Hmm... That is very interesting...




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