Parasite Detected

http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060325/tc_cmp/183702832

If they could just get the fine right and skip the court supervision
non-sense....

optikl <optik-(E-Mail Removed)> hath wroth:

[alt.comp.security deleted as Newsguy claims its bogus]

>http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060325/tc_cmp/183702832
>
>If they could just get the fine right and skip the court supervision
>non-sense....

A bit more on the subject:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060323-6447.html

According to Winnebago County State's Attorney Paul
Logli, unauthorized access of a WAP is illegal in Illinois,
even if the network is unprotected.

Reading between the lines, this seems to imply that the targeted
system was NOT encrypted or protected. So much for unsecured access
points being presumed to be available to the general public.

Still more:

http://www.rrstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/...0036/1004/NEWS

Wartowski said a Loves Park police officer was on patrol in the
wee hours of the morning when he saw Kauchak sitting in a car
with a computer. He slowed down, took a look and saw he had a
laptop in his lap. He talked to him and put it all together,
Wartowski said.

So much for me using a mapping program to get driving directions with
a laptop at night. To the casual observer, I'm obviously hacking.
Sigh.


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Jeff Liebermann wrote:
So much for unsecured access
> points being presumed to be available to the general public.

Well, a case could be made for that presumption. Sort of like the case
I've seen make by some VXers, that unprotected computers on the internet
are presumed to be test boxes for their latest malware programs. Not
sure I'm in the buying mode for either one.

>
> Wartowski said a Loves Park police officer was on patrol in the
> wee hours of the morning when he saw Kauchak sitting in a car
> with a computer. He slowed down, took a look and saw he had a
> laptop in his lap. He talked to him and put it all together,
> Wartowski said.
>
> So much for me using a mapping program to get driving directions with
> a laptop at night. To the casual observer, I'm obviously hacking.
> Sigh.
>
>

Now that is a very legitimate concern and one I didn't pick up from the
initial article. You have to wonder how that might play out in a court
case, as regards probable cause. So, I guess there is both good news and
bad news in that story, Jeff.