Republican politicians on Thursday called for a sweeping new federal law that would require all Internet providers and operators of millions of Wi-Fi access points, even hotels, local coffee shops, and home users, to keep records about users for two years to aid police investigations. [More]Between this and hip-hop, these stupid sonsofbitches are making themselves totally irrelevant to anything I give a damn about.
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But...but...you have to vote for this boot! Don't you realize the other guy's boot has track spikes on it?
Make a generous contribution now, and vote on Election Day, and we'll do our best to make sure the boot stomping your face is crepe-soled, and crepe-soled only.
Communicate about important stuff face to face, away from phones -- even hung up, they can transmit -- cell phones -- even when off they can log your movements as long as the battery is installed -- "security" cameras and you know what all else. A walk in the woods is good for the soul.
If you have plans, know them like a quarterback and his team using code.
Solo operators are generally ridiculed, but they do have communication security.
They're STILL trying to translate some Arabic commo traffic from years ago. Dialect, slang, LESS-THAN-HELPFUL Muslim translators...
Fo shizzah, gon' see the mofo inz crib 'n' rizzah's wizzah.
or, "I plan to pay a call on the referenced disliked person at his residence and re-adjust his world-view severely."
Certainly, the Republicans have surrendered any philosophical ground that identified them as such, except when they want to micromanage personal choice on the few issues the Democrats don't.
But remember, voting third party is a wasted vote... ha.
I have accessed wifi from parking lots near hotels before, and near restaurants, and .... and I don't require a password to access mine as a service to anyone who needs it.
The chair is against the wall.
They can pry my open wifi access point from my cold, dead hands.
Not that that would seem to bother them at all.
If passed it ends the concept of 'open wi-fi' and propels us into a regime of 'show us your id to get a password to access this complementary hotel network'.
I'm a republican precinct chairman, Cornyn is one of my senators and he's just proven himself beyond redemption.
I can no longer even imagine the r party has any respect for liberty. It is just a branch of the national socialist conglomerate. I am through.
Anon 6:46
I hope that you are not one of our Ron Paul precinct chairs in Travis County. If so, we are not through fighting and we need you.
Heck yeah, Kent. There is no such provision for that type of information in the typical 802.11a/b/g device, and most are configured as open/WPA, with or without a key that can be used by any remote host.
I'm sorry, Red Team, but this is just stupid. What are they going to have for records, MAC addresses?
"Hey Chief, we did a trace on the media access control address. Turns out it was from a block assigned to Linksys. We've narrowed it down to 4,141 WalMart stores in the US."
"Good work, Perkins. Round up everyone who ever shopped there, and tell 'em to bring all the WalMart receipts they have ever got."
"Sure thing, Chief."
They've just declared war on RFC 2131.
Sounds like a good reason to be using MAC address spoofing and to change addresses often. Wouldn't want them to be able to do any _usable_ traffic analysis.
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