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The teenager also faces a possible fine of up to 10,000 Singapore dollars ($6,425) if convicted despite the lack of aggravating factors to his alleged crimes. There’s no suggestion he did any mischief beyond allegedly freeloading his neighbour’s net connection without permission.

Despite the fact that just about every single home and office wireless access point and wifi-equipped router comes by default with an unencrypted, insecure configuration, most of the attention is being focused on those who are exposing and abusing these networks rather than those setting them up. Just about any Windows or Mac machine equipped with a wireless card will actively look for and connect to wireless networks, making many blissfully unaware that they’ve even done anything, let alone something wrong. While that’s certainly no excuse for blatantly stealing services from someone, the manufacturers of these devices aren’t helping any by producing such easily-expoitable default systems. Perhaps it has been made too easy to use?

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My Thoughts and Opinions (Glossary at the bottom //tech jargon//)

As an internet user myself, I sincerely feel that this fellow who stole bandwidth from his neighbour is VERY wrong. I respect all fellow users on the internet by being polite in language and online “speech” (instant messaging/email). However, I think that this guy does not deserve a single ounce of basic respect at all! Why must he use his neighbour’s bandwidth when he has his own internet plan which provides him with bandwidth too?

I only despise people who cheat and swindle to get what they want but not need. If they need it, at least they still have some dignity left, but if they do it just because they want to do it, like the teenager in the article, they should hang their faces in shame! Why? I ask myself every single day when I use the internet… People are getting more technologically advanced, but so are the hackers… why do people bother to hack? Is their computer and internet not sufficient? Are they not contented with what they already they have to the extend that they wish to have more?

I recently finished reading a manga comic entitled “Marchen Awakens Romance”. The ending was unexpected with a greater evil hiding behind the person who was thought to be the root of all the evil in the fantasy world or MAR. This person, the queen, had betrayed her country because of her greed for weapons and magic, basically power. Because of power, she was willing to join the evil side as their ruler. Because of power, she was willing to betray her entire family and generations of ancestors who had put all their trust in her. In the very end, she was slain by her own sister, who did it reluctantly. At that instant, the evil in the queen vanished and she was returned to her proper emotional state, talking to her sister with her last breath.

From the story, I concluded that greed never came to a good end. If one is greedy, he can never be self-content. If he can never be self-content, he can never be happy and lead a contented life. What is the meaning of life? What are we meant to do in life? I think we’re just supposed to live life to the fullest and be contented with what we have so that we are not greedy or jealous to have what others have.

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//Tech Jargon//
bandwidth – The amount of information or data that can be sent over a network connection in a given period of time. Bandwidth is usually stated in bits per second (bps), kilobits per second (kbps), or megabits per second (mps).