Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Possession of Cantenna Now Illegal?
"The recent arrests in Florida and the UK of men who were accessing unsecured wireless hotspots has created a flood of articles that contain panic inducing rhetoric. "A small subset of computer-savvy hackers has the know-how and gadgets for more nefarious activities," claims the Sacramento Bee (via Techdirt). "They're (Pringles cans fashioned into antennas) unsophisticated but reliable, and it's illegal to possess them," quips Sacramento County Sheriff's Lt. Bob Lozito of the Sacramento Valley Hi-Tech Crimes Task Force." I hope they tell Fry's about all the illegal antennas they're stocking, too.
source:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/1910247&tid=193&tid=17
source:http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/25/1910247&tid=193&tid=17
# posted by dark master : 7/26/2005 09:29:00 AM
