Netstumbling and US Law

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth George Toft on 8/28/2002 08:08 as having spake thusly:
\_
\_ 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?

Not without violating the "intentional reception" clause you just
quoted.  Unless there's something in there about "someone else's
transmissions".    :-)

Do you have a handy link to the offending text?  Or would that
violate.... 

David