[AusNOG] OT: Police Wardriving. Where else but QLD!

[XiTatiON]

If they were going to notify it would probably be a spray and pray based 
mail out to suburb/surrounding areas that open ap's are found.  Doubt 
they would spend much time trying to narrow it down to a single ap/house 
the amount of effort required to do that is substantial.

On 23/03/2012 12:56 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:43:07AM +1000, Sean K. Finn wrote:
>
>   >  I'd further suggest that they'd see if they could find out their
>   >  IP address through an Internet-accessible probe, and if so,
>   >  record the IP, and then contact the ISP for subscriber information
>   >  to mail out information, determine address, and to follow up with.
>
> Upon what basis would they make such a request?
>
> Running an open AP is not illegal.  They have no open investigation,
> therefore no grounds to make a request for records to a carrier or
> CSP.
>
>   >  The article Mentions WEP. It would be interesting to see them
>   >  either sit outside your house and crack your WEP, determine your
>   >  IP, then send you a letter in the post, else they would have
>   >  to triangulate your address or figure out where signal was
>   >  strongest and have a guess as to which house you are in.
>
> So have a think about how much time and effort that takes;  the
> investment in police manpower resources to gather data persuant
> to something that isn't actually illegal.
>
> Can you realistically see them doing any of it?  I can't.
>
> This is a PR exercise, not an actual thing.
>
>   >  but, srsly, if this isn't automated, it's an impossible mission.
>
> They're the police. It isn't automated :-)
>
>    - mark
>
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