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Feds, Cork, and O Canada On SeattleWireless TV

Posted by simoniker on from the bruvva-watchin dept.

Rob Flickenger writes "This month's freely downloadable SeattleWireless TV show is out. Continuing with the Big Brother theme, Drew from WiFimaps.com interviews Special Agent Tom Grasso of the National Cybercrime, Forensics, and Training Alliance (at the FBI) about wardriving and wireless. This episode also features Gerry Curry's deployment of wireless in the rural Nova Scotia, Canada, and Danny Dinneen from Ireland introduces the Cork Wireless community network project. The show is downloadable in Windows Media, RealMedia, and BitTorrent MPEG formats."

5 comments

  1. Let's just hope... by phauxfinnish · · Score: 2, Funny

    Gerry Curry is keeping his downloads clean; don't want to defile a church's internet connection.

    Guy at ISP: "Why is this church downloading all this porn? Oh well, whatever keeps them away from the alterboys."

  2. SECOND POST! by gowen · · Score: 1

    And only 5 hours after the first post.

    Man the slashdot community is excited by this story.

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  3. Wardriving Addendum by drewzhrodague · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I shouldn't be posting at work, but I got this in my email from Tom:

    Something else I thought of regarding the "legality of war-driving" issue: when you start a new wireless connection it scans for wireless networks in the area and asks you which one you want to connect to. This sounds just like war driving. So if war driving is illegal then hundreds of thousands of people everyday are breaking the law every time they setup a new wireless connection. Doesn't seem likely to me. Just a thought.

    While there is a difference between portscanning, and wardriving, I believe the meaning of what he's trying to say is still the same -- wardriving is okay, lest you access networks which you are not authorized to use.

    Perhaps in the future I can interview a lawyer who's up on these issues, as well as some researchers.

    Also, the NCFTA is at http://www.ncfta.net. I got some really great clips about their work with SPAM, but they weren't quite relevant to the show, unfortunately.

    Location Based WiFi

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    1. Re:Wardriving Addendum by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Just so you know, the specific section of law he refers to, Title 18 Sec 1030, is mostly just about fraud, damage, etc. It does not specifically relate to anything having to do with wardriving.

      The appropriate Section is 2511, "Interception and disclosure of wire, oral, or electronic communications prohibited". In particular, part 2 says this: "(g) It shall not be unlawful under this chapter or chapter 121 of this title for any person -

      (i) to intercept or access an electronic communication made through an electronic communication system that is configured so that such electronic communication is readily accessible to the general public".

      In other words, not only should wardriving be perfectly legal, so should be sniffing any packets that might be sent over a non-encrypted network.

  4. bittorrent tracker down? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    is their bittorrent tracker down or is it just me?