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Re: [PLUG] Philadelphia Wireless Project
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George Gallen wrote:
| I see major issues with this plan. I see rampant identity theft
| that will occur with people driving around sniffing packets pulling
| emails and files right out of the air. The potential for child porn
| to be downloaded while sitting in your car looking at the kids
| playing in the playgrounds, or in the parks, totally anonymously.
| As well, I can envision the drug dealers utilizing this free anonymous
| network for inventory and distribution services.
All these issues already exist. In fact, if anything, this alleviates
these problems. A perv who wants to be anonymous to download child porn
before might have gone to sit outside your house to get it. The trail
ends there. If he uses the city wifi they will realize after a while
(if they care to look) that he is getting his porn every wednesday at
9pm after getting Checkers. Soon enough he gets picked up.
Same with the drug dealer scenario.
Now obviously I understand that there are some users who are smart
enough to avoid all this, but if they are smart enough to do things like
use encryption and/or change their mac address, they certainly didn't
have a problem getting their porn or stealing information now.
| I really like the idea, but the city has a lot of other issues to
| deal with first. You can't be laying off Police and Firefighters and
| then instituting a wireless plan like this....doesn't make sense.
Well that is a completely seperate budgetary issue.
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