The Labyrinth (of th3 Malfunction3d Droi3d)

Introduction In this week's entry, I will be discussing a piece of U.S legislation that has been in place, since the Carter Administration in the United States circa 1978. I realize I have several readers, from all over the world, including the U.S who read my blog on weekly basis. This law is applicable to readers outside of the U.S, but will only make sense to you are familiar with U.S statutory laws. It applies to both U.S and non-U.S citizens equally, but from a civil liberties standpoint ONLY if you are U.S citizen. The first question your probably asking is what is this law about and how does it apply to computers? The answer to that in short, is according to most Criminal Justice textbooks, FISA is a law that dictates how and when the U.S is able to conduct electronic surveillance for foreign intelligence and national security purposes outside of the U.S. It's been the subject of frequent debate [1] here in the U.S, in post 9/11 world on, whether or not there is enough...

Introduction Note: Because there are MANY different scenario's that involve packet sniffing and because they need to be evaluated on a case by case basis in various countries, I highly RECOMMEND you seek legal counsel specializing in Intellectual Property law or "I.T" law in THOSE respective countries if you need to better understand the legality of such issues OUTSIDE of the U.S. If you ARE legal counsel in the U.S and want me to make technical corrections or add more case scenario's for U.S readers, DO NOT hesitate to contact me. I understand U.S law is not static and open to interpretation. Thank You! In this week entry, I will be analyzing the varying degree of circumstances, in which packet sniffing with Kismet/Wireshark computer programs maybe consider "legal" and "illegal", given two real life, real world scenario's. I noticed that this question comes up quite frequently between "hackers" and law/policy analysts. This was ...