UK P2P Crackdown to Fuel Wi-Fi Hijacking?
Date : 2008 02 13 Category : Web News
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Illegal file-sharers who get their accounts terminated by ISPs may resort to piggybacking on other people's unprotected wi-fi access points and lead to complications in enforcing new plan.
After recent news points to the distinct possibility that British ISPs just may become de facto copyright police for UK authorities after all, network security firm Sophos warns of an impending explosion in the number of people illegally piggybacking on other people's Wi-Fi internet service.
For Security firm Sophos points out that the UK government's proposal to make ISPs ban illegal file-sharers from the internet will mean that some people will inevitably be looking for alternatives after being blacklisted for infractions of copyright laws.