This will surely stir discussion among a certain subset of our readers. A guy “borrowing” a wi-fi signal from a coffee shop is being prosecuted for illegally tapping someone else’s network. I certainly believe you have a property-right to your wi-fi signal (and, interestingly, some people don’t), but they could have left it with a warning. I mean cops don’t normally prosecute people for reading the newspaper at a newsstand without paying for it. They say, “Hey, this ain’t a library.”

Depending on what the prosecutors actually seek in terms of punishment this sounds like it resides somewhere between overkill and outrageous.