Actually it could be much more than 10 hours, how long have we held people in Guantanimo (sp?) Bay without charging them with anything? Current administration has shown quite a lack of care for the Constitution and international law. So I would not put any hope that our constitution would give any protection here, but I digress.
Actually once you are sending radio waves it is no longer "your property" and anyone is and should be allowed to receive it. So no one is trespassing, as your analogy would imply. A person does not own or control the radio waves. If you put your data on air, you should expect that people can receive it. Thinking that it will not is just like thinking if I put a picture out in front of my house no one can see it because it is on my property and no one should see it. The airwaves are free, well as much as our "free" government allows it to be, so if you put stuff out there it can and will be received. So if you put your computer on a wireless network with your banking info available, it is like blowing up your credit card number and putting it on the front of your house, available to the public. Now using it to buy a new computer would be wrong, but seeing it is not. I think the old idea of "privacy" and "property" are very outdated. Yes wardriving is kind of "geeky" but there is NO invasion of anyone's property or privacy. That was given up when it was sent over the radio waves. I used to have a cordless phone that would pick up neighbors conversations, same exact thing, perfectly legal. Those people gave up the right to privacy once they sent there conversation over the public air waves. They may not have been aware of what they were doing, but it is everyone's responsibility to understand the technology they are using.
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Actually it could be much more than 10 hours, how long have we held people in Guantanimo (sp?) Bay without charging them with anything? Current administration has shown quite a lack of care for the Constitution and international law. So I would not put any hope that our constitution would give any protection here, but I digress.
Actually once you are sending radio waves it is no longer "your property" and anyone is and should be allowed to receive it. So no one is trespassing, as your analogy would imply. A person does not own or control the radio waves. If you put your data on air, you should expect that people can receive it. Thinking that it will not is just like thinking if I put a picture out in front of my house no one can see it because it is on my property and no one should see it. The airwaves are free, well as much as our "free" government allows it to be, so if you put stuff out there it can and will be received. So if you put your computer on a wireless network with your banking info available, it is like blowing up your credit card number and putting it on the front of your house, available to the public. Now using it to buy a new computer would be wrong, but seeing it is not. I think the old idea of "privacy" and "property" are very outdated. Yes wardriving is kind of "geeky" but there is NO invasion of anyone's property or privacy. That was given up when it was sent over the radio waves. I used to have a cordless phone that would pick up neighbors conversations, same exact thing, perfectly legal. Those people gave up the right to privacy once they sent there conversation over the public air waves. They may not have been aware of what they were doing, but it is everyone's responsibility to understand the technology they are using.