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There could be a distinction made between utilizing open wifi and sniffing traffic. It seems to me that collection of the packets is the crux of the issue.
by fleitz 13y ago
There could be a distinction made between utilizing open wifi and sniffing traffic.
It seems to me that collection of the packets is the crux of the issue.
- magicalist 13y agoThat's exactly what I mean. The collection is the problem, but the court ruled on the phrase "readily accessible to the general public" (to be fair, though, that was the basis of the motion to dismiss and it would have been a stretch to expand the ruling). Anyone accessing an open wifi point is seeing other people's traffic. It's looking at it and storing it that seems to be the problem, but that's not the distinction the wiretap act makes.