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Law Scholars Say WaveLAN Hacking Is Legal, In Germany

Posted by timothy on from the aber-irgendwo-anders dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes: "Seems in Germany sniffing other peoples WaveLAN is no criminal offense. At least the authors of this Article from the German magazine 'Datenschutz und Datensicherheit' claim that even intercepting and decrypting WEP-encrypted traffic is perfectly legal. Wow." (The PDF file is in English.)

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  1. presedence in US court. by j-turkey · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Its too bad that this won't affect any of our (bad) US legislation.

    Hell, we still can't use radar retectors in some states (to listen in on somewhat public frequencies that are used to surveile us).

    Even without encryption, I'll bet that just about any US court would rule it illegal to sniff 802.11a/b/d packets.

    If you add breaking WEP, it becomes a DMCA issue...again, US courts would be even more likely rule it illegal.

    Are there any other capitalist countries out there that are just a little smarter than mine?

    -Turkey

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    -Turkey