Singapore teen faces 3 years for borrowing WiFi

A Singapore teenager has been charged with tapping into someone else’s wireless Internet connection, a crime that carries a penalty of up to three years in jail, a newspaper reported Saturday. Garyl Tan Jia Luo, 17, is the first person to be charged with this crime under the Computer Misuse Act, the Straits Times reported.

This is absolutely ridiculous! If this guy did not want people borrowing his internet, he should have secured it! It does not even seem like you get a warning. It’s not like he hacked into the network, or surfed illegal sites, so what is the real harm here?