I saw this and loved it, shame my two are too big for it now though.
Monday, August 15, 2005
If only you could send it back
It makes you wish that the reply to address in that spam would be
real.....just for once.
How stupid can they be?
From the register.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/uk_war_driver_fined/
So if you fire up your laptop, and it connects to a hotspot you could be fined £500.
So how do you tell if it's starbucks you've connected to, or the flat above, or across the street.
Answer, you can't. Plus reading a little further, Communications Act 2003 means that due to this ruling, a wireless card is a method for stealing access. Do apple and cisco know? I hope so.
Mad I tell you, mad.
Some more thoughts on it here. http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/08/stealing-your-neighbors-net.html#comments
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/25/uk_war_driver_fined/
So if you fire up your laptop, and it connects to a hotspot you could be fined £500.
So how do you tell if it's starbucks you've connected to, or the flat above, or across the street.
Answer, you can't. Plus reading a little further, Communications Act 2003 means that due to this ruling, a wireless card is a method for stealing access. Do apple and cisco know? I hope so.
Mad I tell you, mad.
Some more thoughts on it here. http://securityawareness.blogspot.com/2005/08/stealing-your-neighbors-net.html#comments
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