alt Hacker NewsTo be fair, HAMs are typically empowered by actual telecommunications agencies with legislative authority to enter premises and what have you to resolve issues, whereas script kiddies just make up their own shit.
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You've already been corrected about "ham" not being an acronym.
> telecommunications agencies with legislative authority to enter premises
This is real garbled. I don't know what "legislative authority" even is. The entering of premises involves an "enforcement authority", really.
Perhaps you meant that legislators have granted them the authority to do enforcement activities. That isn't "legislative authority".
> To be fair, HAMs are typically empowered by actual telecommunications agencies with legislative authority to enter premises and what have you to resolve issues
Citation, please?
I'd really like to see a documented example of some HAM entering somebody else's premises on, what, a self-appointed search warrant to hunt down a transmitter they deem illegitimate? In the USA that seems like a good way to get shot by a homeowner.
In what country? I'm only familiar with rules in the US, and it isn't the case here.