[Web4lib] wireless and Patriot Act

[Richard Wiggins]

Do you enable encryption? WEP or WPA?
 If you don't have encryption, or if it's WEP, your patron has more to worry
about than J. Edgar Hoover....
 /rich

 On 10/11/05, Tana Elias <telias at scls.lib.wi.us> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently been asked a question I don't know the answer to. It is: A
> patron wants to know if he used our wireless on our internet, would his
> computer then be subject to the same scrutiny under the Patriot Act as our
> library machines are?
> To expand this, can wireless interactions be tracked the same as
> in-library
> interactions?
>
> Have any of you had to answer this question, or dealt with this issue in
> your library? Any ideas, articles, etc. would be helpful. I couldn't find
> much specifically on this issue.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Tana Elias
>
>
>
>
> Tana Elias, Web Librarian
> Madison Public Library
> 201 W. Mifflin St.
> Madison, WI 53703
> http://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org
> telias at scls.lib.wi.us
> 608-266-4953
>
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