Here's the point: if someone gets caught downloading illegal material, he'll get a warning. If he gets caught a second time, this law will suspend his internet connection.
SVM has launched a petition against this law, and we ask you to sign it too - and here's why:
Once voted, you'll be responsable for your internet connection forever. If, for example, you have an open WiFi network, and someone downloads illegal material over your network, the authorities will not pursue this person, but instead prosecute you for downloading that illegal material.
Those who proposed this law, argument that once you get a first warning, you can still secure your network.
But there's another problem: not everyone knows how to secure a WiFi network. And, even if the network is 'secured', this 'security' is often nothing more than a WEP-encoding, with either a 64 or 128 bits key. The WEP protocol has proven countless times to be unsafe, we have a demo here that shows how this WEP-key can be found in less than 4 minutes.
Please not that we have performed this action on one of our own networks, using this method to find someone else's key is illegal.
We've used standard tools, available on the web, and a USB WiFi-stick costing less than 30 Euros, and have done this on a Mac. We're not going to give more details, we only wanted to show how quick and simple this is done.
You can download the clip here: wep2.mov.zip (7,4 Mb)
Remember that if you're using a WPA or WPA2 encryption, you are still vulnerable if your key is too short.
Better and newer security tools are still being developped, and should soon secure our networks even more, just in case you're dealing with a motivated pirate.
We're not complaining about laws against pirates in general here, but expelling people from the internet would be one step too far - not to mention all the technicians needed to verify the security of a network.
