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Mumbai Police To Enforce Wi-Fi Security

Posted by Soulskill on from the taking-a-stand-against-e-loitering dept.

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.

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  1. Fuck Mumbai by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Any time a terrorist act is used to restrict the free, anonymous flow of information, you can rest assured that the terrorism is government sponsored.

    It is only a knee-jerk reaction to place draconian technological restrictions after an event to those who perpetrated it. The innocent and the free would never try do such things, as they have nothing to hide.

    Always look to see who benefits from the "reaction" whenever there is some kind of "action" and you most likely have your perpetrator.

    Fuck Mumbai.

  2. Fucking nazis by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Remember the Nazis were a puppet state by Zionists who sacrificed 6 Million of their own people to rape the Middle east and steal all their oil money so they can kill innocent children who are not "people" because they aren't in the name of "God".

    The Mumbai police will be taking your rights for "God" and all the profits will be given to the Rothschilds puppet "Al-Qaeda" who is really a scam to get your money

    This "credit crunch" will lead to all Americans being converted to jews. Remember Jews made sure you paid your "interest" with pounds of flesh.

    Those "shoes" that you "throw at puppet bush" are being made for by Jews.

    This will also be modded down as troll by the bury brigade sponsored by the Jews who fund $lashdot.