Florida, the state known for not being able to keep pants on their spammers, has become what is believed to be the first state in the nation to arrest and prosecute someone for using someone else’s open wifi.

Mind you, there is no evidence that Benjamin Smith III did anything else illegal while accessing the Internet through Richard Dinon’s unsecured open wireless access point in a residential neighborhood of St. Petersburg, Florida. It appears that he is guilt of - only - using that open wifi to get out to the Internet. Which is “unauthorized access of a computer network”. Which is a third-degree felony in Florida.

Now, Aunty is not saying that what Smith did was right. But it’s ironic that…

[Use Open WiFi - Go to Jail, Continued]