ah, this old chestnut again. can anyone provide a direct link to any such us state legislature?
it could be argued that any wireless network that offers open dhcp services (ie no filtering, crypto, or authentication - no *discrimination*) is, in effect, explicitly authorizing anonymous and random connectivity to that network. any network activity beyond that point may well be open to interpretation... but also remember that dhcp gives a default route, which could also be interpreted as giving authorization to transit beyond the local wireless subnet. to my knowledge the first such case to come before us courts was two years ago: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/07/26/ethical_hacker_faces_war_driving/ http://www.free2air.org/?op=displaystory;sid=2002/7/27/105013/369 the legal case against stephan puffer in houston, tx was dropped many months later. shine, .vortex On Thu, 2004-07-01 at 03:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Jim Henry wrote: > > > I disagree with thew author of that article in that it is not a crime to > > just connect to an unsecured wireless network (in the U.S.A. anyway) if you > > do not use the connection in a malicious way. If I'm mistaken I'd sure like > > to see the specific section of the law being violated. > > Many States have Computer Crime Laws on the books that make it a crime to > connect to unsecured networks. > Play if you want to but you will end up a guest of the "Gray Bar" hotel. I'm > seeing more and more requests for RF Engineers to track these guys down using RF > finger printing. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > War driver pleads guilty in Lowes WiFi hacks > By Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus Jun 4 2004 1:04PM > > The remaining defendant, 23-year-old Paul Timmins, is scheduled for arraignment > on June 28th. In 2000, as a juvenile, Salcedo was one of the first to be > charged under Michigan's state computer crime law, for allegedly hacking a local > ISP. According to statements provided by Timmins and Botbyl following their > arrest, as recounted in an FBI affidavit filed in the case, the pair first > stumbled across an unsecured wireless network at the Southfield, Michigan Lowe's > last spring, while "driving around with laptop computers looking for wireless > Internet connections," i.e., wardriving. The two said they did nothing malicious > with the network at that time. > > http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8835 > > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
