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Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security
caffeinemessiah writes "In the wake of the recent terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, the local police are going to be sniffing out unsecured wi-fi access points and ordering the owners to secure them. The article notes that 'terror mails were sent through unsecured Wi-Fi connections' before bomb blasts in other Indian cities. No word on if they'll be walking around using Kismet, or if people who use pathetically weak WEP encryption will be ordered to switch to more advanced protocols. Unfortunately, a gesture like this does not take into account the insidious scenario of walking into a cafe, buying a coffee and then (legally) using the cafe's wi-fi. Or the fact that terrorists might actually be able to pay to use a cybercafe, and know what VPNs are."
On the other hand, the Mumbai police may still be keeping track of the mandatory keyloggers that went into the area's cybercafes in 2007.
3 hour bus ride? That's a lot of time taken out of a terrorist plot. Do you have any idea how much evil can HAPPEN in three hours? Hot dang. That's a whole 8th of a season. Just ask Jack Bauer.
3 hours is a lot if this was going to be a hit and run attack like done recently in Taj hotel and elsewhere. But you have the understand the complete context here. India has had attacks which were done much differently. There have been cases when the terrorists were *in* India for days and sometimes months. Some of those attacks have cost more lives (mumbai train blasts come to my mind) than the recent one. And these attacks are much more common.
So, yes, you are right if the cops are only targeting Taj Mahal sort of attacks. But thats 'not enough', as I said.
3 hour bus ride? That's a lot of time taken out of a terrorist plot. Do you have any idea how much evil can HAPPEN in three hours? Hot dang. That's a whole 8th of a season. Just ask Jack Bauer.
True, but that could be a great trick to get an uninteresting subplot out of the way and off the screen for a few episodes. Hazid and Bazid take a bus to another city to send the evil terrorist message via unsecured wifi. Don't worry about them for a while, back to Jack!
They could show it instead in a kind of special feature on the DVDs, where you see all the things that happen while the camera is elsewhere, or during the commercials. That's where you'd see Jack on the can*, the CTU director stuffing a patchouli in her face, and characters stuck in LA rush hour traffic. And then three straight hours of the two terrorists on a bus. One hour, one sleeps and the other sits up looking stern. Then the sleeping one wakes up, and gets out a portable Scrabble board.
* Just kidding, nothing escapes Jack Bauer.
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