Hopefully we have educated enough of the media that this will not be spun as "clueless consumers don't secure their WiFi access points against music sharers" but as "RIAA cartel goes after charity based internet providers for providing internet access to inner-city kids and working class Americans."
-- Daniel << When truth is outlawed; only outlaws will tell the truth. >> - RLiegh On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, jon baer wrote: ]i dunno i grabbed this off a 802.11 mailing list, the story in question ](link below) makes no reference whatsoever to 802.11 + i get the feeling ]alot of the RIAA's assault mistakes will get blamed on open WiFi ... ] ]- jon ] ]RIAA's mistake highlights 802.11 vulnerability ]The RIAA has dropped a suit against Newbury, Massachusetts sculptor Sarah ]Seabury Ward. The RIAA has accused her of using Kazaa illicitly to download ]music from the popular file sharing network. She had a solid defense: Kazaa ]runs only on Wintel computers. She uses a Macintosh. Evan Cox of Covington & ]Burling said that there might have been an error when the local network ]provider gave the IP addresses to the RIAA: "If any of those numbers are ]wrong or transposed, you're going to get the wrong person." The mistake ]should be a warning to users of unsecured 802.11 networks. Given the current ]state of vendor-neutral security solutions for Wi-Fi networks, it is ]possible for a file trader seeking to avoid legal action to attach to a ]poorly secured network explicitly for the purpose of downloading illicit ]music files. When the RIAA subpoenas ISP records, there will be no way for ]the ISP to determine that a rogue wireless network client was responsible ]for the illicit activity. Matthew S. Hamrick, an independent security ]expert, said: "This is going to be a big mess... from a technology ]perspective, it's going to be awfully hard for the RIAA to prove that if the ]people they're suing have wireless networks, that it wasn't a rogue ]war-driver downloading songs using their [the suit target's] wired network ]connection." ] ]http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2003/09/24/recording_industry_ ]withdraws_suit/ ] ] ]pgp key: http://www.jonbaer.net/jonbaer.asc ]fingerprint: F438 A47E C45E 8B27 F68C 1F9B 41DB DB8B 9A0C AF47 ] ]-- ]NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ ]Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ ]Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ ] -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/
