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Wardriving Worries Residents
sphynx99 writes "This article describes how residents of an upscale neighborhood in Arizona are worried about wardriving, a "new method of privacy intrusion and identity theft". Nothing to worry about, though; "The Scottsdale Police Department plans to create a cyber-crimes unit next year."
If protecting against wardriving was as simple as closing your blinds, then it wouldn't be an issue.
Your analogy is false; someone would have to go to considerable effort to foil a thermal imaging camera. With wardriving, however, one can enable WEP and the problem is solved.
And don't tell me that this is beyond the savoir faire of Joe Sixpack. Enabling WEP involves checking a box, and entering a passphrase, on a web admin page. About the same level of difficulty as sending an email.
Tubal-Cain smokes the white owl.
when I was at university here in the UK I used to streal money from the unlocked dorm rooms
plus la change
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Well, you didn't bother to find out what copyright infringement is, or indeed to consult any relevant legal resource at all, or indeed to spell, but as this is _such_ a common problem I'm putting some links together. I must admit that by the time you're old enough to understand them the law may have changed.
There really ought to be a copyright law FAQ that someone can post a link to after each 'I know nothing about law but copyright violation _is_ theft, it _is_, for I truly _believe_ it is!' post -- but I couldn't find one.
Short:
http://www.shaviro.com/Blog/archives/000183.htm
Long but freindly:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/28/copying
Misc:
http://www.fearthecow.net/index.pl?section=gues
An interesting thing to consider for anyone who has an interest in law is the effect of the NET act:
http://eric_goldman.tripod.com/articles/nljneta
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.