Re: CRIME Wiretapping WiFi

From: Duane Nickull (duane@private)
Date: Wed Oct 15 2003 - 09:05:08 PDT

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Anwers inline...
    

    
Crispin Cowan wrote:
    

    A friend posed
this question, and I have no idea what the answer might be: 
    
 
    
If I'm running an open, non-encrypted wireless network, what is (say) the 
  
    
FBI allowed to intercept in an effort to gain evidence?  Do they need a 
    
warrant?  Is the data admissible?  What if I live in an apartment with 
    
other folks.  What about when I'm using a t-mobile hotspot?
    
Yes - There is a new sherrif in town in the US and he likes ot read the Patriot
Act (anything on anybody anytime).
    

    
As George Orwell implied in 1984, nothing can get a group of citizens to
voluntarily give up their rights faster than a prolonged war against an unseen
enemy.
    

    
Read about the vast new powers of wiretaps on American Citizens here:
    

    
http://archive.aclu.org/issues/privacy/Patriot_Chart_law.html

     Same questions,
but this time, I'm running an encrypted network?  Can they 
    
capture the data and crack the key?  Can they capture it for later use after 
  
    
they sieze my equipment and get my key? 
    
Yes - they have that right under the new act.  They can do whatever they
deem necessary in the name of national security.
    

    
From the act itself:
    

    
"Permits interception without notice to   
    the target of communications of a broadly defined "computer trespasser"
       with consent of owner/operator of a protected computer.   
                              "
    

    
Land of the free ;-)
    

    
/d
    

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