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Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal?

Posted by timothy on from the you-must-must-must-be-joking dept.

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.

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  1. Re:Possesion is fine, use often illegal by scorp1us · · Score: 0, Troll

    you mena commercial airwaves,
    and when the page you cited says it has jurisdiction in all 50 states, it actually means *between* all 50 states. The web publications are not held to the same legal scruitiny as the written law and statutes.

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  2. Re:Possesion is fine, use often illegal by scorp1us · · Score: 0, Troll

    Try again: unless you are reselling your WiFi, it is not commerce and not under jurisdiction of FCC.

    All those COMPANIES were engagingin COMMERCE.

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  3. Re:How about parts? by Winkhorst · · Score: 0, Troll

    As part of English speaking society you are expected to follow the rules of spoken and written English. Those include using capitals in the appropriate places. Kindly try not to be such a hypocrite.

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