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

[Lionel Peterson]

On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:12 PM, Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>  
wrote:

> On Jan 12, 2009, at 21:39 , Lionel Peterson wrote:
>
>> On Jan 12, 2009, at 9:18 PM, "Jonathan C. Patschke" <jp at celestrion.net 
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
>>>
>>>> It seems the Mumbai terroists used unsecured Wifi connections to  
>>>> send
>>>> email.
>>>>
>>>> http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Mumbai_cops_probing_Wi-Fi_security/articleshow/3956633.cms
>>>
>>> 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?
>
> Possibly.
>
> The "solution" certainly isn't going to stop them more than  
> momentarily.
>
> It's like taking guns and ammo from citizens: the criminals will  
> just make their own.
>
> Force "secure" wi-fi, and the terrorists will just start using  
> secure wi-fi tool, which is even worse.

You've got it backwards, the "bad guys" went to a neighborhood and  
used, say, your insecure home WiFi hotspot to send emails, when the  
Gov't tracked the IP address to your home, they assumed YOU were the  
terrorist, and acted accordingly.

If your home hotspot was "secure" they would have avoided that  
confusion, since the "bad guy" couldn't use your Internet connection.

Securing WiFi is an attempt to deny "bad guys" that particular form of  
annonymous Internet access.

The "bad guys" aren't running hotspots, either secure or insecure  
ones...

Lionel