Also, some of these things are deliberately set up as honeypots. Not your average neighbourhood unsecured network most likely, but I personally know of someone who got to hear about a couple of turds trying to sniff his WEP connection and decided to deliberately allow them to connect. Then he got all their details and exacted revenge on their systems. He's a lot more knowlegeable than they were and they very definitely came off a lot worse!

I'm not condoning this either, but you just don't know what you're playing with, and if you get involved in something illegal, then you can't expect sympathy when it all goes pear shaped.

As to your comment about my general wisdom etc, well I would argue you too are old enough to know the difference between right and wrong, or else what are you doing here if you're only 12 years old? Hell, at 12 my kids knew basic morals, which I could also refer to as your conscience, ie that part of you that knows the difference. No excuses.