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Re: (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples
From: "Bruhn, Mark S." <mbruhn () INDIANA EDU>
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:49:53 -0500
Frankly, I doubt that ECPA disallows jamming of the sort being suggested for this context. It would be analogous to just unplugging the network so it isn't available to users within the scope of that room. ECPA would also allow monitoring of the traffic in that room as well, in my opinion, if 1) there wasn't supposed to be any network traffic emanating from that room anyway, and, more importantly 2) if the people were told it was being done in advance. A classroom where an exam was being administered would not be a public forum by any stretch, and I think the institution could exercise complete control over the facility. M. -- Mark S. Bruhn, CISSP Chief IT Security and Policy Officer Interim Director, Research and Educational Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (ren-isac () iu edu) Office of the Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Indiana University 812-855-0326 Incidents involving IU IT resources: it-incident () iu edu Complaints/kudos about OVPIT/UITS services: itombuds () iu edu -----Original Message----- From: stanislav shalunov [mailto:shalunov () INTERNET2 EDU] Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 10:17 AM To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU Subject: Re: [SECURITY] (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples Omar Herrera <omar_herrera () BANXICO ORG MX> writes:
There exists technology that actually "jams" wireless signals [...] There is still some issues with this kind of technology: It might be illegal in some states and countries, so you should check the legislation first.
IANAL, but I had to read the relevant FCC regulations. In the US, I would expect this kind of jammers to be frowned upon by the FCC---intentional harmful interference by an organization can result in large monetary forfeitures. Since the easiest way to cheat this way would be to use a web-enabled phone (they are currently the smallest devices that allow one to browse autonomously), monitoring of traffic would go counter to FCC regulations, too. What could be legal (but check with the counsel, of course) is monitoring of *presence* of radio activity enamating from the exam room. However, some pacemakers might possibly trip very sensitive alarms. Further (and I don't think any technological solution would work against this), there exist watches that can accept fairly long pages over the radio without transmitting anything. They look more or less like normal watches. They can be configured not to beep when they get a page. -- Stanislav Shalunov http://www.internet2.edu/~shalunov/ This message is designed to be viewed upside down. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Discussion Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/.
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- Re: (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples stanislav shalunov (Jul 22)
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- Re: (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples Scott Weeks (Jul 22)
- Re: (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples stanislav shalunov (Jul 22)
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- Re: (Q) wireless networking classroom cheating examples Bruhn, Mark S. (Jul 22)
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