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FCC Prohibits Blocking of Personal Wi-Fi Hotspots
alphadogg writes: The FCC on Tuesday warned that it will no longer tolerate hotels, convention centers or others intentionally interfering with personal Wi-Fi hotspots. This issue grabbed headlines last fall when Marriott International was fined $600,000 for blocking customer Wi-Fi hotspots, presumably to encourage the guests to pay for pricey Internet access from the hotel.
If they won't let me unplug my employees private hotspots on my network, I will be mad.
You can unplug them. You just can't actively jam them.
Faraday cages don't jam signals. They insulate the inside from the outside.
If the employees are turning on their personal hotspots and using that, you don't have a security problem. If they are both connecting to the hotspot and to your network, you can stop this by booting them off your network. What you can't do, though, is put a hotspot jamming device in place to knock out all personal hotspots.
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I worked NetSec for a global casino/resort company. At nearly every site a few times a month I would send local IT to go find wifi routers plugged into our network. Employees would bring in cheap routers because we didn't allow wifi other than the guest network which was strictly for corporate visitors (ie. sales reps, etc) and they wanted to use their personal devices for whatever. This happened even at corporate, where I sat.
Fifty watts per channel, baby cakes.
The method is not specified in the rule. It just says blocking and disruption are prohibited.
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
Companies can not be charged for hacking:
- See this company that makes a DoS device.
- See SONY rootkit drm.
- See companies that are poisoning P2P networks.