Wardriving for wireless LANs 2

[Roland Perry]

In message
<BB3AF5C4A607FE4E969AA39CB42B6C7B088F01@bond.campus.ncl.ac.uk>, Quentin
Campbell <Q.G.Campbell@newcastle.ac.uk> writes
>While the owner's use of a car remote locking system may be "licence
>exempt" it does not follow that interception, recording and disclosure
>of the key code or other content by a third party is also exempt. It
>almost certainly isn't and I assume is covered by S2 of RIPA with the
>WTA as a fall back (*). The issue of interception & disclosure was the
>other part of the "war drive" question.

RIPA covers public and private telecoms systems. Some of these point to
point radio systems that are being used as examples (including the car
remote locking) don't fall into the RIPA definition of a
telecommunications system. WaveLAN normally does (as it's connected
elsewhere to a public telecoms system), but are its beacon signals
"broadcast for general reception"?
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