[140418] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 23,000 IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Tue May 10 22:22:29 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <2050F838A26343E989A09DD14EBC908E@DELL16>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 22:22:21 -0400
To: Michael Painter <tvhawaii@shaka.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On May 10, 2011, at 9:53 16PM, Michael Painter wrote:
> Deepak Jain wrote:
>> For examples, see the RIAA's attempts and more recently the criminal =
investigations of child porn downloads from unsecured access
>> points. =46rom what I understand (or wildly guess) is that ISPs with =
remote diagnostic capabilities are being asked if their
>> provided access point is secure or unsecure BEFORE they serve their =
warrants to avoid further embarrassments. [It'll probably
>> take another 6 months and more goofs before they realize that =
customers are perfectly capable of poorly installing their own
>> access points behind ISP provided gear].
>=20
> Exactly...what about those who choose WEP/WPA-TKIP for their 'secured' =
access point?
> I can just imagine being in front of a judge/jury after having been =
arrested for, as you say, "child porn downloads " and listening to my =
law^H^H^H public defender explain the mechanisms of how the access point =
was 'cracked' and may have been used by someone sitting in their car =
down the street.<shudder>=20
>=20
>=20
It's happened -- here are two cases I know of:
=
http://news.cnet.com/Wi-Fi-arrest-highlights-security-dangers/2100-1039_3-=
5112000.html
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http://news.nationalpost.com/2010/05/27/ontario-man-accused-of-downloading=
-child-porn-because-of-free-wifi-connection/
--Steve Bellovin, https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
