Wardriving for wireless LANs 2

[Roland Perry]

In message <BB3AF5C4A607FE4E969AA39CB42B6C7B7797@bond.campus.ncl.ac.uk>,
Quentin Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>IANAL but it seems that a so called "war drive" without the appropriate
>licence would in most cases be an offence under S5 of the Wireless
>Telegraphy Act 1949.

If that's all about unauthorised reception [sorry, don't have Act to
hand] then how does that square with the beacon broadcasts that are
being picked up being an intentional aspect of the WaveLAN
specification?
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