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RE: [PLUG] Phillys hot spots...
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From: plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org
[mailto:plug-admin@lists.phillylinux.org] On Behalf Of George Gallen
Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 2004 9:57 AM
To: plug@lists.phillylinux.org
Subject: [PLUG] Phillys hot spots...
How does the RIAA deal with municipal hotspots?
If someone links up in Love Park, and downloads music from a P2P, the IP
comes back to Philadelphia City (or whoever is hosting the project).
What is
to stop these hotspots from becoming a mecca for childporn
downloaders?
or even terroristic threats?
I love the idea of using light poles with mini-repeaters.
It is a method I saw a few years ago, to use that same technique and
cable to function as a cell phone repeater instead of using cell phone
towers, but it never seems to get used.
George
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Having seen an a presentation of Cisco hardware that would let you track
the location of a rouge base station in your office using the
interference received by the "legal" base stations in your office, one
could imagine law enforcement tracking the movement of a given MAC
address around the wireless network (since it's essentially the same
thing). Since the MAC address is harder to change then your IP one can
assume that MOST people taking part in low level online crime don't know
how to change theirs. Once law enforcement knew material of an illegal
nature were going to that machine, it would just be a matter of walking
around a small area looking over people's shoulders until you found who
you were looking for (or the guy that bolts). Granted city wide
networks would be harder (then say Love Park) to control since you'd
have people in their own homes and probable cause becomes more of an
issue (you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy in Love Park
so looking over shoulders most likely isn't a problem)
As for the RIAA, I assume they will just sue the city, the mayor, the
mayor's dog, and 150 unknown Philadelphia residents in a California
court and announce the city is full of anti-capitalist terrorists trying
to bring about the down fall of civilization through stealing music.
Of course IANAL
Aaron
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