On Saturday, December 7, 2002, at 09:31 AM, Steve Schear wrote:
<http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html><http:// www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html>Ah, the irony is too rich! Consider one comment from this WiFi conference:
Feds Label Wi-Fi a Terrorist Tool
By Paul Boutin
SANTA CLARA, California -- Attention, Wi-Fi users: The Department of
Homeland Security sees wireless networking technology as a terrorist
threat.
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"Homeland Security is putting people in place who will be in a position to say, 'If you're going to get broken into ... we're going to start regulating,'" said Cable and Wireless security architect Shannon Myers in a panel dubbed "Homeland Security vs. Wi-Fi."
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Now who gave us 40-bit WEP? Government.
And who is now saying "secure yourselves!"? Government.
Deep schizophrenia, the same sort that gave us the Official Wisdom: "Passengers and crew should never, ever fight with a hijacker...the optimal strategy is to let the hijacker into the flight cabin and then deal with him over the next several hours."
--Tim May
