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

[Shane Chubb]

I wonder how they will handle quota's for this work.
It can't be based on letters sent out or AP's detected otherwise officers
will be constantly wardriving at macdonalds given it is a known open AP
area.
OK so we all know that quota's dont exist right.... And we all know that
the Police dont visit macdonalds either right...

Perhaps their following an initiative from the states. Seems the US police
may have been wardriving for years. Do Dunkin Donuts have WiFi?
You get where I'm going.

I have to completely agree with everyone's comments. This is a major waste
of taxpayers money.


On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 09:46:07AM +1000, Sean K. Finn wrote:
>
>  > "The project was officially launched yesterday
>
> AusNOG carried a thread about this very topic about two years ago.
>
> It carried a certain amount of irony, because it was happening
> at about the same time that the Minister for Communications was
> berating Google for "the worst privacy invasion in human history,"
> or some similar ignorant twaddle, at exactly the same time that
> the Queensland Police were doing exactly the same thing.
>
> None of this is very new, Queensland Police don't appear to have
> learned anything from their previous efforts either.  Last time
> they did it it was harmless and made no noticeable difference to
> anything; this time will be the same.
>
> When Government agencies participating in anti-fraud
> initiatives come out with advice like this:
> https://twitter.com/#!/DBCDEgov/status/182316823738449920
> perhaps our expectations should be pegged pretty low.
>
> The government thinks like a gatekeeper; that's what they are,
> that's what they'll always do.
>
> Gatekeepers could never have built the internet.  The entire
> point of the internet was to bypass the gatekeepers (who,
> in the 1960's, were telcos who sold expensive circuit-switched
> services and refused to believe that packet switching could
> ever fly).
>
> That's how the internet continues to work today, as rights
> holders, bricks and mortar retailers, and various national
> censorship bodies continue to discover, but never actually
> learn lessons from.  The Internet is a gatekeeper emasculation
> machine.
>
> Until government agencies stop thinking like gatekeepers,
> they'll continue to fail to "get it."
>
>  - mark
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