CISSP Wannabe asks: As I read the Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986, the intentional reception, recording, decoding, and decryption of wired and wireless electronic systems is illegal. Therefore, typing snoop, tcpdump, or ethereal on a system (for purposes other than troubleshooting) is illegal. Furthermore, it would appear that netstumbling and wardriving is also illegal. Can someone disprove me? Regards, George -- Irrefutable fact about projects: You can have it Quick, Cheap, or Right - pick any two. What does that tell you if your project is ahead of schedule and under budget?