[Owasp-Mumbai] [technologylawforum] Re: Press Release - Hunt for unsecured WiFi

[r4y]

Finally, we all now know the address of the sheriff's brigade.(its in the
press release)

happy war driving! ;-)


2009/1/17 r4y <secureas at gmail.com>

> Dinesh,
>
> i'm curious to know under what provision of the IT Act are they allowed to
> carry out this survey? does it say anything about access points?? Is it now
> illegal to own an unsecured AP (connected or otherwise to internet) as per
> the new act??? wtf!
>
> From a rational perspective (which is many times now what a law is supposed
> to adhere to) i am perfectly fine for them to do a wireless audit
> ANONYMOUSLY and publish the results, but snooping around and then doing door
> to door searches is not funny anymore. Even if they have support of the
> police and sherrif's dept.
>
> I mean whats the difference between the sherrif doing wifi scanning and me
> doing wi-fi scanning "in the interest of the public good" ??
> The only diff is i would be branded as a terrorist and them as the good
> guys.
>
> </rant>
>
>
> 2009/1/16 Dinesh O'Bareja <dineshbareja at gmail.com>
>
> Vicky - your tagline says it correctly "Human behavior.... " and the one
>> human we have to be very scared of is the self styled Internet Guru and
>> Chief mentor of the Sheriff's Brigade.
>> What a great name - Sheriff's Brigade - going around snooping around  your
>> house and colony with official sanction ! And now we shall get a good
>> looking report to read.
>>
>> Kuch karo please ... get NASSCOM / DSCI to lock him up.
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Vicky D. Shah <shah.vicky at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>>  This is ridiculous and very irresponsible act.
>>>
>>> *Vicky D. Shah
>>> **+91-98201-05011
>>> "Human Behavior is the Biggest Risk in Security - Vicky D. Shah"*
>>>
>>> --- On *Fri, 16/1/09, Dipak Parmar <CyberLawCollege at gmail.com>* wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Dipak Parmar <CyberLawCollege at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: [technologylawforum] Re: Press Release - Hunt for unsecured WiFi
>>> To: "Dipak Parmar" <dipak at lawyer.com>
>>> Date: Friday, 16 January, 2009, 2:23 PM
>>>
>>> Attachment... (wifiSurvery)
>>>
>>> On 1/16/09, Dipak Parmar <dipak at lawyer.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> FYI
>>>>
>>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>>>
>>>> From: "Dr. (Mrs.) Indu Shahani"
>>>> To: sheriffofmumbai at yahoogroups.com
>>>> Subject: [sheriffofmumbai] Press Release - Hunt for unsecured WiFi
>>>> Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 12:21:48 +0530
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> With regards,
>>>>
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>>>
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