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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, April 30 2012 @ 04:48 PM EDT |
What most commentators forget is that radio is a *broadcast* medium. There is no
way to prevent anyone from receiving your signal, and in many cases, they're
entirely free to do so (exceptions for cell phones and a few other things,
IIRC). Whether the sender intended their data for only a single receiver is not
relevant.
In the PCworld article, some people called it eavesdropping ("to listen
secretly to what is said in private", m-w.com), which is completely wrong.
Radio signals by their very nature are public, if you want something private,
either hide it (encrypt) or don't say it to the public. If you don't want anyone
to notice the signal, don't transmit. It's pretty simple, really.
(simple enough that my wireless AP doesn't advertise itself, so unless you know
the name -and- the WPA2 string, you're not getting in)
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