Home » Computer Security

Australian Police To Go Wardriving

Computer infected with Trojans, Spyware or Virus? Are you getting many fake security pop-ups and warnings? Computer working really slow? Not to worry. Our website provides you with free virus removal steps and free malware removal tools to remove spyware, trojans and virus. Search this site for removal instructions and Free Spyware Removal tools.

                                

 

Download Spyware Doctor To Remove This Virus "Spyware Doctor delivers powerful protection against spyware and adware threats. Spyware Doctor is honored by many of the world’s leading PC mags, including PC World, PC Magazine, and CNET."

Download Spyware Doctor

Australian Police To Go Wardriving

17 July 2009

Some Australians who haven’t secured their wireless networks may soon be getting a (relatively friendly) visit from the police. It seems that a few officers intend to do a little wardriving in order to find unsecured networks and warn the owners of possible problems.

Australian Police To Go Wardriving
Australian Police To Go Wardriving

Detective Superintendent Brian Hay of the Queensland Police explained to Brett Winterford the thought process behind the move. “We know unsecured networks are a problem,” he said. “We know the crooks are out there driving around trying to identify these networks. We can’t just sit back and not address the issue.”

Winterford then continued, “[S]o let’s test the waters – let’s scan the environment. And let’s tell people, ‘Excuse me, this could happen to you and your family and this is how you can rectify it.’”

Which seems reasonable enough, from a certain perspective. It’s a mission of education more than enforcement, after all.

The usual questions about police officers not having better things to do has come up, however, and some people in the tech community are also stressing that they want to keep certain networks open and thus provide a sort of public service.

The debate’s an interesting one, anyway. And now Australian readers know not to panic if a policeman happens to knock at their door in the near future.

More Details

 

Share/Save/Bookmark

Leave your response!

Add your comment below, or trackback from your own site. You can also subscribe to these comments via RSS.

Be nice. Keep it clean. Stay on topic. No spam.

You can use these tags:
<a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>

This is a Gravatar-enabled weblog. To get your own globally-recognized-avatar, please register at Gravatar.

Spam Protection by WP-SpamFree

website statistics