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The parent specifically mentioned Nigeria. Africa is not a country, and his comment may not apply to say, South Africa or Morocco. You're the one generalizing about 3rd world countries, not him.

If you think LLE or even the FBI is going to open the diplomatic channels necessary to pursue someone in Nigeria over access to a consumer-grade router, you're kidding yourself. For all practical purposes, these laws do not in fact apply there.

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Unless that consumer grade router is running a bank of a nuclear power plant.

There are very few places outside the reach of US law enforcement. Especially if they bother to get Interpol involved.

I am now imagining wardriving to a nuclear power plant parking lot in order to score free wifi off their NetGear.

Why not, it worked against TJX, right?

Orders of magnitude more likely to find an open WiFi in a bank's parking lot than you are to find a WAN-facing consumer-grade router. Any employee in the company could screw up the former ("I didn't get good wifi so I brought in a router from home!"). The latter requires grossly incompetent netsec.

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