My main point was that the law needs to be updated, as is often the case with technology stuff. That law was written before wireless access was widespread and now it's being misapplied.
Living as I do in an area where bandwidth is still expensive and difficult to get, I may be more sensitive on the issue. I've also been through the experience of being literally hacked, in the case of the college network where I used to work, and seeing the full bandwidth of a T1 consumed by illegal activities. Genuinely illegal activities: the hackers had broken into an insecure machine and set it up as a clandestine FTP server loaded with illegal copies of commercial software that they were distributing. It was amazing how that consumed bandwidth and how difficult it was to get it under control.
I don't use wireless access at all myself, but we have declined to install it in the library because of potential legal issues and the fact that we couldn't contain it inside the building.
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Date: 2007-01-08 12:10 pm (UTC)Living as I do in an area where bandwidth is still expensive and difficult to get, I may be more sensitive on the issue. I've also been through the experience of being literally hacked, in the case of the college network where I used to work, and seeing the full bandwidth of a T1 consumed by illegal activities. Genuinely illegal activities: the hackers had broken into an insecure machine and set it up as a clandestine FTP server loaded with illegal copies of commercial software that they were distributing. It was amazing how that consumed bandwidth and how difficult it was to get it under control.
I don't use wireless access at all myself, but we have declined to install it in the library because of potential legal issues and the fact that we couldn't contain it inside the building.