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

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Wed, May 19, 2010 17:46, Nils Kassube 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
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>> >>
>> >> 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.

LOL, don't you see the irony? "internet police" :-D



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