If ethernet is replaced with wireless, it would be trivial to knock out entire buildings with a single transmitter.
I mean all I have to do is broadcast garbage over the used spectrum. Wires have uses.
What if you sell them. Or use them to get information that you then sell. Then you are making money. I guess what I'm saying is that if I tell someone
I'm you to get your cell phone records - to sell them to a client (perhaps the national enquirer wants to know who you call.) or because a client pays me (I'm trying to track down one of your friends for a credit bureau or the RIAA.) Then money is involved.
By patenting the firewall the Navy may stop those companies that seem to patent things solely to send you extortion notes for licensing. Typically the federal gov't can't/doesn't license them. Since they are taxpayer funded they seem to be "Ours." Actually there are a lot of patents that I wish they had. Anyone know for sure if this will essentially place the firewall patent in the public domain?
If you are a cop; what if you are receiving information from someone inside? If you are a crime lord or smart thug - you'd buy these records. If the Police or the DA's phone records show a number that belongs to one of your boys. Might explain how they found out about that shipment last week.
I think the selling of phone records is a bad idea.
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If ethernet is replaced with wireless, it would be trivial to knock out entire buildings with a single transmitter. I mean all I have to do is broadcast garbage over the used spectrum. Wires have uses.
What if you sell them. Or use them to get information that you then sell. Then you are making money. I guess what I'm saying is that if I tell someone I'm you to get your cell phone records - to sell them to a client (perhaps the national enquirer wants to know who you call.) or because a client pays me (I'm trying to track down one of your friends for a credit bureau or the RIAA.) Then money is involved.
Isn't it already a crime to pass yourself off as someone else? I thought it was fraud.
By patenting the firewall the Navy may stop those companies that seem to patent things solely to send you extortion notes for licensing. Typically the federal gov't can't/doesn't license them. Since they are taxpayer funded they seem to be "Ours." Actually there are a lot of patents that I wish they had. Anyone know for sure if this will essentially place the firewall patent in the public domain?
If you are a cop; what if you are receiving information from someone inside? If you are a crime lord or smart thug - you'd buy these records. If the Police or the DA's phone records show a number that belongs to one of your boys. Might explain how they found out about that shipment last week.
I think the selling of phone records is a bad idea.