Saturday 2 August 2008

Insecure Wireless and the Terrorist Email

Indian police raided the Mumbai home of an American expatriate after someone used his open wireless network to send an email that took responsibility for a bomb blast that killed at least 42 people... We've often argued that Wi-Fi bandwidth is like air, and the oft-repeated warnings about people leaching off unsecured networks was so much hysteria. This experience goes to show there are down-sides to any share-and-share-alike philosophy.

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