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Indeed a quick look at Queenslands Cybercrime laws shows up
"The Queensland law introduced in 1997 uses the heading 'computer hacking and misuse' but the offence is defined as the use of a restricted computer without the consent of the computer's controller. A restricted computer is defined as one that requires a 'device, code or sequence of electronic impulses' to gain access. There is a penalty scale of two, five or 10 years maximum term of imprisonment depending on whether (1) an offender simply uses a computer, (2) causes detriment or damage, or gains or intends to gain a benefit, or (3) the detriment, damage or gain is valued at more than $5,000."
the problem with a lot of governments, including the US, appears to be the other half of the equation, which is that when the private sector is doing well, the public sector should contract, in order to mitigate the effects of inflation.
What seemed to me to have happened in the last decade is that government costs expanded in the "good times" causing a deficit, and meaning that when the bad times came with the financial crash it's a lot more difficult for them to expand spending.
The other problem (although it doesn't apply as much to the US as other countries) is sovereign debt risk. Countries like the republic of Ireland absolutely have to cut expenditure as otherwise the bond markets see them as a real default risk and hike up the cost of their borrowing, so they have no real choice but to decrease government spending.
Two big problems
1) What if the DoS affects other parts of the infrastructure like the Wireless Access Point. Can't imagine hotspot owners will be too happy if people start doing this all the time.
2) False sense of security. Using FireShepard is unlikely to stop other means of getting access to the data (eg, kismet), it only stops FireSheep (for now).
One example of the attack http://techcrunch.com/2009/01/20/latest-facebook-scam-phishe...
In those cases the fraudsters have stolen the account completely and locked the original user out, but I guess it's that kind of attack + the information leakage aspect that could be a concern..