[geeks] Unsecured Wifi connections now illegal in part of India.

[Lionel Peterson]

   How is this harassing people? The Gov't is requiring folks with
   wireless access points to set them to be secure. It is a zero-cost
   effort.
   You and I may bristle at the requirement, but we both live in the USA,
   not Mumbai, and all those wonderful constitutional protections we have
   here don't really apply there.
   Lionel
   Jan 12, 2009 09:50:44 PM, geeks at sunhelp.org wrote:
   On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Lionel Peterson wrote:
   >> Dang, these governments have it all figured out. They should just
   >> outlaw terrorism, so that there won't be anymore terrorists.
   >
   > Better they should ignore that this may be how terrorists were able
   to
   > communicate?
   Yes.
   How many exabytes of data per year are transmitted via unsecured
   802.11
   connections, and how much of that data is terrorism-related? For that
   matter, how -trivial- is it to crack WEP and WPA-Personal?
   Let's license paper and ink, too, since I hear terrorist print
   training
   manuals on them. And let's not allow people to have access to
   unsecured
   video cameras that might be used to case targets for an attack.
   If all the wireless network devices in India had spontaneously self-
   destructed before the Mumbai attack had occurred, the terrorists
   wouldn't
   have said "Oh, shit. To bad we can't figure out how to communicate and
   blow stuff up without WiFi. Let's go home for tea, instead."
   People will do bad things. This alone is insufficient cause to harass
   people who are not doing bad things.
   To put it another way: those terrorists likely moved explosives along
   "unsecured" roads. Should we place checkpoints along all roads?
   --
   Jonathan Patschke ( "I'll be long gone before some smart person ever
   Elgin, TX ( figures out what happened inside this Oval Office."
   USA ( --George W. Bush
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