Sorry if this post is a tad late, but there are some basic things not brought up any sooner...
-- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom This is a forwarded message From: evilbunny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Bob Harman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, December 10, 2002, 6:03:10 AM Subject: [Hwug-general] Feds see Wi-Fi as terrorist tool ===8<==============Original message text=============== Hello Bob, BH> More fuel for the flames: BH> http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html Notes to pay attention to, said terrorist, buy stolen mobile phone, not likely to be able to trace easily, said terrorist buy prepaid sims, said terrorist walk into dodgy cafe, use pay phone or any other billion ways of "getting onto the network" said terrorist take tanker full of diesel and fertiliser in CBD of any city anywhere, do massive amount of damage, zero amount of being detected... cyber terrorism is a load of horse sh!t I'm sorry, but how many people lately have been killed due to it really? Well unless you count the FBI agent head of the FBI unit in charge of cyber security, killed by the snipper running round last month, that single bullet did more then 100 or 1000 "cyber terrorists" could ever do... It was real world damage that could be easily measured in the loss of man power... How many cyber crimes are so easily accounted for? Then of course the most crippling thing to happen to the net in the last few years is due to security issues with microsoft products, I love you and melissa viruses, not to mention all the zombies floating about that can be activated anywhere world wide to virtually take down any network anywhere... As the other guy says in the paste below, it's self serving the interests of those that fear competition... Maybe it's just us Aussies that are so critical of our government that they can't go pulling this crap and us blindly accepting it as truth... Time to wake up before whatever protections your constitution had, are all gone, I mean already people are being arrested and can be held indefinitely without a trial, for doing the smallest things, these are abuses of your rights as a human, with talk of allowing torture as a valid means to gather evidence! my gawd, when did Hitler become US president....!!!!!!! Everything I see including the stupid idea of citizens spying on citizens only leads me to 1 conclusion... "It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine..." The following post was sent to a local mailing list... Summed things up a little better then I could... -- This is a forwarded message From: John Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, December 9, 2002, 2:07:21 PM Subject: [Syd-Wireless] US targets 'unsecure' access points ===8<==============Original message text=============== The following article has been reported on Slashdot: http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,56742,00.html Basically, it reports that an advisory group in the US sees 'unsecured' WLANs as a terrorist security threat. Being the cynic I am, I assume their interpretation of 'unsecured' includes publicly accessible access points. Here is a quote from the article: "Devasirvatham said the telecom industry was represented at security planning talks with federal agencies, but the wireless sector itself was not." So basically, the incumbent telcos in the US have gotten themselves in a position where they can whisper nasty things about their competition into the US government's ear. Who cares if they bastardise the 'war against terrorism' for their own ends, while taking the society in which they operate one step closer to another 'Dark Age'? If anyone from the ACA is listening in on this, please do Australia a favour and resist any similar tactics by Telstra. John Dalton _______________________________________________ Syd-Wireless mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] For account administration (such as removing yourself from the mailing list and changing your email address) http://lists.sydneywireless.com/mailman/listinfo/syd-wireless ===8<===========End of original message text=========== -- Best regards, evilbunny mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally http://www.sydneywireless.com - Telecommunications Freedom ===8<===========End of original message text===========
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