[140431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 23,000 IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken Chase)
Wed May 11 10:33:03 2011
Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:32:18 -0400
From: Ken Chase <ken@sizone.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4DC9ECE8.10307@ispworkshop.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 09:56:56AM +0800, Ong Beng Hui said:
> while, I am not a lawyer, so what after they know who is using that
> broadband connection for that IP. So, they have identified the 80yr old,
> what next ? and what if i have a free-for-all wireless router in my
> house which anyone can tap on, which i regularly switch off during
> nighttime for energy saving reason. :)
Simple. Just make having clue on configuring your wifi AP a legal requirement. :)
Sides, since WPA is cracked now too, to some extent, i dont think most APs
have any sort of guaranteed protection. Hell, it's better to leave it wide
open, as having the prosecution accuse you of child porn because you used a
hard-but-crackable WPA2 ("it's one in a billion to crack it! beyond a
reasonable doubt! we dont have anyone anywhere in our IT who could possibly
crack it!") instead of WEP or wide open seems like a greater pitfall.
What about projects like http://NoCat.net - will they be made illegal? That's going
to be an awesome can of worms.
/kc
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