OT: Wardriving police: password protect your wireless, or face a fine

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net> wrote:
> Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
>> On Tue, May 18, 2010 19:11, Nils Kassube wrote:
>> > Fred A. Miller wrote:
>> >> Wardriving police: password protect your wireless, or face a fine
>> >> <http://ct.zdnet.com/clicks?t=542715556-f09aff1f3240c763b781087d83
>> >> 996 fa3-bf&brand=ZDNET&s=5>
>> >>
>> >> Internet users in Germany, whose wireless networks are left
>> >> password unprotected, can be fined up to 100 euros, according to
>> >> a recent ruling by Germany's top criminal court.
>> >
>> > Except, there is no wardriving police in Germany because an open
>> > WLAN isn't criminal here. And the police can't knock on your door
>> > and collect ¤100 because what the article calls a fine is the
>> > lawyers fee for sending a cease and desist letter. Some time ago a
>> > new law was passed which limits this fee to ¤100 for simple cases.
>> > With the ruling of a file sharing case the top court (BGH) took
>> > the opportunity to remind lawyers and lower courts that file
>> > sharing cases are such simple cases.
>> >
>> > Anyway, IMHO the blog post mixes several news of the last years
>> > from all over the world related to WLAN only to make a sensational
>> > headline.
>>
>> Have you contacted the author of the article about this? I think you
>> should.
>
> Why? If I should contact the author of every incorrect blog post I read,
> I couldn't do anything else. OTOH, I just read the comments to the
> article and some people mentioned the errors already.
>
>
> Nils

when I read the article, the author had already posted an
update/correction because of comments received