Rachel Lim
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/ 27 March 2007

Wireless piggybacking case sets precedent

When 17-year-old Garyl Tan Jia Luo piggybacked on his neighbour’s unsecured wireless internet network to chat online, he could not have imagined that in doing so he would make Asian legal history. Information technology experts say Tan was the first in Singapore, and possibly Asia, to be sentenced in court for ”wireless mooching”.