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[ PRIVACY Forum ] Federal Judge: Sniffing open WiFi networks is not
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Fri Sep 7 17:58:03 2012
Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2012 14:31:17 -0700
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Sniffing open WiFi networks is not wiretapping
http://j.mp/RkXhyK (ars technica)
"A federal judge in Illinois has ruled that intercepting traffic on
unencrypted WiFi networks is not wiretapping. The decision runs
counter to a 2011 decision that suggested Google may have violated the
law when its Street View cars intercepted fragments of traffic from
open WiFi networks around the country."
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As I've been saying all along. "Public is public."
Reference: "Highly Illogical": The Hysteria Over Google's Wi-Fi Scanning:
http://bit.ly/9680wb
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