When you're through clutching at straws, the definition of fraud might be useful here: "intentional perversion of truth in order to induce another to part with something of value". You'll disagree no doubt, but in this instance you're masquerading as the legal user of the connection in order to gain bandwidth and by doing so you're defrauding the ISP.
Insufficient. A house with an open door is nevertheless not legally open to the public.
I'm afraid it doesn't work like that. You are responsible for the actions of equpment in your control, whether you knew it was doing it or not. You might drive your truck down the street and crush an old ladie's poodle without knowing about it. You're still culpable.
(snip example of inadvertent network sharing)
*shrug*. That it happens doesn't make it legal.No, new york state law is merely out of date. And if you read the rest of the article for comprehension, you'd see that the article itself concludes that its a crime in any events, due to a host of Federal statutes which view the matter otherwise. And in any events, authorisation doesn't mean keying in a password. Thats a computer-science meaning. Authorisation simply means being given permission by the owner. This could be written permission, oral permission, or whatever.