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In the US, what law makes it illegal to MitM network traffic using a WiFi evil twin or other technique? I'm genuinely curious because I was under the impressio
by patcheudor 7y ago
In the US, what law makes it illegal to MitM network traffic using a WiFi evil twin or other technique? I'm genuinely curious because I was under the impression there are generally no such statutes and that the only thing that would be illegal is if the MitM used found credentials.
- sonotathrowaway 7y agoPossibly the CFAA?
- patcheudor 7y agoThe CFAA only applies to protected computers and intrusion into those computers. Watching network traffic or modifying network traffic in a MitM possition, without using found credentials doesn't seem to rise to the level of a computer intrusion. Of course, it's unlikely a protected computer is going to be connecting to a public WiFi AP in the first place.. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_computer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protected_computer
- mehrdadn 7y ago> The only computers, in theory, covered by the CFAA are defined as "protected computers". > In practice, any ordinary computer has come under the jurisdiction of the law, including cellphones, due to the interstate nature of most Internet communication. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#Protected_computers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Fraud_and_Abuse_Act#P...
- pnutjam 7y agoIt doesn't have to be illegal for the cops to check it out. Sometimes it scares people off. I had an officer acquaintance who said he pulled over a car with a shotgun in the back seat and asked who it belonged to, nobody was willing to claim it. He impounded it as abandoned property despite it being perfectly legal to possess.