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I love this impression that if you're connecting from <insert somewhere in Africa>, laws don't apply. I'd wager nobody that's ever actually lived anywhere in 3r
by Nanzikambe 13y ago
I love this impression that if you're connecting from <insert somewhere in Africa>, laws don't apply. I'd wager nobody that's ever actually lived anywhere in 3rd world bandies it about.
True, you're less likely to actually be convicted, but the months/years waiting for trail is guaranteed to be worse than your actual sentence elsewhere, if not fatal.
- domdip 13y agoThe parent specifically mentioned Nigeria. Africa is not a country, and his comment may not apply to say, South Africa or Morocco. You're the one generalizing about 3rd world countries, not him. If you think LLE or even the FBI is going to open the diplomatic channels necessary to pursue someone in Nigeria over access to a consumer-grade router, you're kidding yourself. For all practical purposes, these laws do not in fact apply there.
- dsl 13y agoUnless that consumer grade router is running a bank of a nuclear power plant. There are very few places outside the reach of US law enforcement. Especially if they bother to get Interpol involved.
- dasil003 13y agoI am now imagining wardriving to a nuclear power plant parking lot in order to score free wifi off their NetGear.
- domdip 13y agoWhy not, it worked against TJX, right? Orders of magnitude more likely to find an open WiFi in a bank's parking lot than you are to find a WAN-facing consumer-grade router. Any employee in the company could screw up the former ("I didn't get good wifi so I brought in a router from home!"). The latter requires grossly incompetent netsec.