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11:09:13 on Sun, 16 May 2010, Tim Trent
<[log in to unmask]> writes
>That was quite a stupid alleged mistake, was it not?
>
>"Let's include this bit of code. I wonder what it does. Oh gosh look,
>number 27's bank details are here"
Only if it was being transmitted during the half a second the car was
passing by and logged into that hotspot.
>Yes, the damage is limited because it was on the move, but, surely,,
>some sort of DPA breach has occurred despite the total stupidity of
>having unsecured personal WiFi
The argument is presumably something akin to "you published it to
anyone, you can't complain if anyone received it". If the data didn't
belong to the hotspot admin, then that's probably yet another offence.
--
Roland Perry
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