I think it matters not what is legal or practical or worded or what they think they've discovered by sniffing their LAN, except as a matter of principal and academics, unles or until you are willing and able to make a plausible legal case.
If a huge ISP wants to cut your service they can and will. How or if you get it back is another matter. Whether they should or not, whether you'll find the right lawyer and be part of a precedent setting case = the depth of your pocketbook to try and find out against the depth of their pockets and the mood of the judge at the time. -------- As for sniffing a network connection, via NetBrute or other NetBIOS or other means (Telnet, FTP...) to poke around - whether you are the service provider or the general public is NOT 'illegal', at least according to a Bay Area FBI rep and no law exists on the books out here in that regard either - UNLESS there is damage - not annoyance but damage. --------- Ask a competent lawyer or judge or read most laws - 'illegal' is typically defined by tangible damage. If I sit here and use NetBrute or similar to 'browse' your hard drive and find out what's in your browser cache through a public network connection I have not damaged you until I use it against you and cause 'harm'. If I am the ISP I usually have the right and means to do Quality of Service or other meaasurements...which could well extend to following a packet through their service and out your 802.11 access point. In their case then, re-distribution (remember, RF is difficult if not impossible to contain) may be proven. Damages have yet to be proven but you have breached their contract. ----------- I for one am not that much of a risk taker to piss off my service provider without a backup plan!! -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
