At least as of now, when they say 'faculty, students, staff, and visitors to the campus', they really mean it. Presently, if you want to actually USE the wireless, you have got to VPN into the system. Until then, your computer will just recognize that there IS an access point, but you sure can't surf the net unless you've got an account with CWRU.
So maybe this isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Until i hear that anyone with a laptop can actually use the access points without going and talking to the school for access, i'm a little skeptical. It's still sweet tho, 'specially if you live on campus.
If you look at all the comments and followup articles by other people, they all seem to be obsessed with the idea that this means it will be 'open season' on the MPAA and others... theregister has an article that talks about this too.
What I'm confused/interested about is that everyone says 'hey, now we can break into systems and claim that we were searching for stolen data' but unless i can't read legislature correctly (which wouldn't suprise me), I think that we'd have to jump through so many hoops, like telling the Department of Justice, the people who you want to hack, and probably some senator's mother too just so that after a week's worth of notification, you could actually 'hack' them, that it's not worth the trouble.
Maybe this bill will let the corporate juggernauts bust some kiddies up, but I don't think this is as exciting for us regular mp3 listeners as everyone is making it out to be.
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At least as of now, when they say 'faculty, students, staff, and visitors to the campus', they really mean it. Presently, if you want to actually USE the wireless, you have got to VPN into the system. Until then, your computer will just recognize that there IS an access point, but you sure can't surf the net unless you've got an account with CWRU.
So maybe this isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Until i hear that anyone with a laptop can actually use the access points without going and talking to the school for access, i'm a little skeptical. It's still sweet tho, 'specially if you live on campus.
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If you look at all the comments and followup articles by other people, they all seem to be obsessed with the idea that this means it will be 'open season' on the MPAA and others... theregister has an article that talks about this too. What I'm confused/interested about is that everyone says 'hey, now we can break into systems and claim that we were searching for stolen data' but unless i can't read legislature correctly (which wouldn't suprise me), I think that we'd have to jump through so many hoops, like telling the Department of Justice, the people who you want to hack, and probably some senator's mother too just so that after a week's worth of notification, you could actually 'hack' them, that it's not worth the trouble. Maybe this bill will let the corporate juggernauts bust some kiddies up, but I don't think this is as exciting for us regular mp3 listeners as everyone is making it out to be.
-d