With this law they’ll find they can get the MAC address, spoofed or unspoofed, and then they’re stuck in a dead end. It’s a wireless hot spot, so the user could be hundreds of miles away by now.
So the next step is to require ID or credit card be logged before use of any hot spot. Then we’ll be like China, with perfect tracking of all our online activities.
*yawn* So a little packet sniffing, or a little social engineering to get at an ID, or a $10 instant cash-card... Where there is a will, there is a way. Hackers, both white and black, have been playing these games for years. If it can be written, it can be un-written.