Okay this is a fairly disturbing viewpoint. What concerns me way more than anything else here are the generalizations in this FBI statement. It makes one feel as if people committing "nefarious acts" (another generalization) are far outnumbering honest WiFi users. It's just not true. And what exactly is a "nefarious act." Are there zillions of people plotting the next JFK like assasination or are we just talking about the average American's propensity for disagreeing with authority of all shapes and kinds? Let's get some specifics here before we wantonly cast aspersions on one of the most enabling technologies to hit the face of Earth since Bell's telephone (or at least the cellular version of it).
Link: Boing Boing: Vancouver cops hate WiFi.
Kevin R. West, a federal agent who oversees the computer crimes unit in North Carolina's State Bureau of Investigation: "Free wireless spots are everywhere, and it makes it easy for people . . . to sit there and do their nefarious acts. The fear is that if we talk about it, people will learn about it and say, 'I can go to a parking lot, and no one will catch me.' But we need to talk about it so that we can figure out how to solve it."
