Anyone that has a wireless card on their laptop knows that free wireless is everywhere. In my house for example if I were to shut down my AP I can pick up no less than 11 access points. Of that 11 only one has any encryption enabled. The cost of high speed internet isn’t that expensive these days. But, with such a target rich environment it’s a no brainer that people might be tempted to do what’s being commonly called piggybacking.
Piggybacking, the usually unauthorized tapping into someone else’s wireless Internet connection, is no longer the exclusive domain of pilfering computer geeks or shady hackers cruising for unguarded networks. Ordinarily upstanding people are tapping in. As they do, new sets of Internet behaviors are creeping into America’s popular culture.