[MLB-WIRELESS] RE: Warchalking

[Judd Howie]

I will be using the symbols from this page:

http://www.blackbeltjones.com/warchalking/

So in future, keep an eye out around inner city Sydney (damn, I have 36
to do that I currently know of) as well as Brisbane, Perth, Melbourne,
Darwin, Cairns and various places (yes, I travel very often!).

Judd
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of sanbar
Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2002 12:26 PM
To: Tony Langdon
Cc: 'Jamie Lovick'; melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: RE: [MLB-WIRELESS] Warchalking


It's just non-permanent graffiti. And it *is* public spectrum. It's just
up to you if you want to cross that legal line between a passive 
and active network connection.
And what's wrong with an admin identifying that his/her network is open,

even if it is via graffiti? Do I need to contact every single sysadmin 
every time I wardrive to let them know what I can see of their network
via 
passive means? Should I tell someone that I can walk past their front
door 
and get a passive connection even without doing *anything*?
If I see a car in the shopping centre car park with its doors unlocked, 
should I contact the car's owner by whatever means possible and let them

know?
Methinks no. 
 - Barry IANAL

On Wed, 26 Jun 2002, Tony Langdon wrote:

> I thought it was an interesting idea.  Liked the proposed symbols too.

> Obviously some issues with what information should onto the rune, i.e.

> ssid, etc.  Arguments either way...
> 
> Not sure of the legal issues either...  If you're caught chalking up 
> an open network, is that aiding a crime? (data theft)? Of course, if 
> the network _is_ a public network (as opposed to the common 
> misconfigured corporate network case), then that's a non issue, and 
> you're only advertising legitimate access...

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