i dunno i grabbed this off a 802.11 mailing list, the story in question (link below) makes no reference whatsoever to 802.11 + i get the feeling alot of the RIAA's assault mistakes will get blamed on open WiFi ...
- jon RIAA's mistake highlights 802.11 vulnerability The RIAA has dropped a suit against Newbury, Massachusetts sculptor Sarah Seabury Ward. The RIAA has accused her of using Kazaa illicitly to download music from the popular file sharing network. She had a solid defense: Kazaa runs only on Wintel computers. She uses a Macintosh. Evan Cox of Covington & Burling said that there might have been an error when the local network provider gave the IP addresses to the RIAA: "If any of those numbers are wrong or transposed, you're going to get the wrong person." The mistake should be a warning to users of unsecured 802.11 networks. Given the current state of vendor-neutral security solutions for Wi-Fi networks, it is possible for a file trader seeking to avoid legal action to attach to a poorly secured network explicitly for the purpose of downloading illicit music files. When the RIAA subpoenas ISP records, there will be no way for the ISP to determine that a rogue wireless network client was responsible for the illicit activity. Matthew S. Hamrick, an independent security expert, said: "This is going to be a big mess... from a technology perspective, it's going to be awfully hard for the RIAA to prove that if the people they're suing have wireless networks, that it wasn't a rogue war-driver downloading songs using their [the suit target's] wired network connection." http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/09/24/recording_industry_ withdraws_suit/ pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
