US Court: "WiFi is not Radio." "Most Radio is Auditory[sic]" "up is down"

The last one I made up.  The rest, by another idiot.

From Techdirt.  Why wifi sniffing is "wiretapping".  Held by a court, and upheld on appeals.

I can't even begin to comment until I read the exact ruling, but it basically starts with the courts ruling that: "... data transmitted over a Wi-Fi network is not an 'electronic communication' that is 'readily accessible to the general public' ", and then goes on to explain that's exactly what it is: " so long as it is not scrambled or encrypted".

http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130910/11594924472/appeals-court-upholds-dangerous-ruling-that-wifi-sniffing-is-wiretapping.shtml

Even the US public school system doesn't train people to be this ignorant, they have to genuinely try.