![]() ![]() ![]() So in the U.S., anyone can listen to your unencrypted communications with impunity. And if the ruling holds up on appeal, it may force all public wifi network owners to admit the obvious: unencrypted wifi networks are completely open to anyone who has the ability to intercept the network’s data.Īs we’ve previously explained on this blog, legally, if you do not encrypt your Internet communications, including your email, IMs, and any websites you visit, you have no expectation of privacy. This ruling seemed to indicate that anyone who “sniffed” or looked at unencrypted data on an open wifi network was committing the crime of wiretapping.Ī federal judge in Illinois may have set a new precedent by ruling the exact opposite way in a recent court case. ![]() You probably remember the famous court case last year in which Google was accused of wiretapping because its “street view” cars gathered fragments of Internet traffic from unencrypted wifi networks across the country. ![]()
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