You may see someone driving slowly around your home, office building, or public parks with a small netbook or IPAD computer and a directional antenna. The directional antenna may look like a coffee can or tennis ball can with a wire to the IPAD, laptop, or netbook. The purpose of this activity is to find open networks that they can use to view websites or exchange files.
The problem is if they exchange child pornography which is illegal and is traced back to your home, business, or organization's router.