Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal?

Mad-Mage1 writes "The recent arrests in Florida and the UK of men who were accessing unsecured wireless hotspots has created a flood of articles that contain panic inducing rhetoric. "A small subset of computer-savvy hackers has the know-how and gadgets for more nefarious activities," claims the Sacramento Bee (via Techdirt). "They're (Pringles cans fashioned into antennas) unsophisticated but reliable, and it's illegal to possess them," quips Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force." I hope they tell Fry's about all the illegal antennas they're stocking, too.

Comments

Cantenna !

[Jeet81]

I don't use Cantenna. I use Pringles !

Re:National TURN IN YOUR: Pringles cans?

[GMC-jimmy]

Hang on a second. Let's take a look at the point their trying to make. Sometimes the door to my house is left unlocked.. my kids are bad for that. That does not mean that because my door is unlocked that Joe Public can stroll in off the street and help himself to my refrigerator.

I think it goes too far when they feel it's OK to arrest Joe Public for walking by the front of my house while it's unlocked though.

However, if they caught the bastard in my house eating my groceries, then I'd want him arrested also.