Better be careful with those tupperware access points. ;-)

paul

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/29/wireless_ap_bomb_scare/

Wireless access point triggers bomb scare
By John Leyden (john.leyden at theregister.co.uk)
Published Friday 29th October 2004 17:00 GMT

An Australian man whose wireless access point triggered a bomb scare
has spoken of his shock at been treated like a potential terrorist.

Student Bobby T, 20, set up a Dlink 2100AP wireless access point
outside his home in the suburbs of Sydney to act as a node in a
community wireless (http://www.sydneywireless.com) network. But the
kit ("a Dlink 2100AP wireless AP, removed of its casing and with the
PCB siliconed onto a black weatherproof electronics box") was only up
and running for 10 hours before he was visited by two NSW state police
and two local police acting on a tip-off from worried neighbours this
Monday (25 October).

Police dug up cables in his garden and quizzed him on other users of
the wireless LAN, while denying him the opportunity to make a phone
call, Bobby T told The Register. "I was never formally arrested or
taken away. Everything happened in my home. Apparently the case is now
closed. They thought it was a bomb, but found it was not," he said.
Police later told Bobby T's friend that they were "about to evacuate
half the suburb and call in the bomb squad".

The police handling of the alert has left Bobby T fuming. "Everyone
that I've told about this story laughed their head off but I've never
managed to find it funny - only scary, threatening, and intimidating.
I had a very good impression of the police until that incident. Now I
feel violated, insulted, and with my rights trampled upon," he said.

Bobby T harbours no ill feeling towards his neighbours over the
incident. "Community ignorance is very understandable especially
considering all the fear that's been instilled upon them. I didn't
mind the cops reacting to calls but I'm just not happy with the
attitude with which they handled the matter," he added.