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"Originally ray's code "latched" onto the open access point and requested an IP address just to prove the WiFi was truly open; but various laws govern connecting anonymously to private WiFi networks, so the project was changed to simply identify their presence."

Interesting, I hadn't heard about that. Are these US Laws? Is this the Richard Stanley ruling?

(and just a random observation, what's the deal with the footer here? "© 1999 LiveJournal, Inc." The post seems to be from earlier this year, has LiveJournal really not updated things in that long?)




You can probably find various rulings on this subject in different countries because Google accidentally did this all over the world.

https://googleblog.blogspot.is/2010/05/wifi-data-collection-...


At this point I bet they leave the 1999 there on purpose.




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