A 17-Year-old boy, Garyl Tan Jia Luo, was the first in Singapore and possibly Asia to be sentenced in court for "Wireless mooching" or piggybacking on an unsecured wireless network to surf the Internet. In Singapore, Tan was charged under the Computer Misuse Act for securing access without authority to a computer for the purpose of obtaining computer services. He got probation, but conviction could have brought him up to 3 years' imprisonment, a SGD 10,000 (Bt 212,680) fine, or both.
Source: The Nation: 2 Apr 07; Agence France-Press SINGAPORE
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