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Wardriving Worries Residents

Posted by samzenpus on from the robots-will-steal-your-medicine dept.

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."

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  1. repeat after me by ophix · · Score: 5, Informative

    purely passive wardriving is NOT a crime.

    now connecting to their access point and using their internet/network for whatever... that might be, i am not a lawyer, so i cannot say. what i do know is that RF signals are not owned, for if they were i could sue for criminal trespass when the other guy's signals cross my property.

  2. SBC/Yahoo, and their un-holy marriage. by agent · · Score: 5, Informative
    SBC/Yahoo took upon them selves to install an 802.11b WiFi NIC into their latest DSL "modem". It is enabled by default with 64 bit encryption, and (now this is where I am not 100% sure) the WEP key is printed on the bottom of the unit. The SSID is "2WIRExyz" where xyz is in the set [0-9].

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  3. Re:In other news by sndtech · · Score: 5, Informative

    Definitely time for the rest of the nation to get with NH's laws regarding wifi. If you don't take adequate measures to secure your wifi AP then you are responisble for anyone accessing your network and for any damages they cause.