[LINK] google misdeeds and Australia's Privacy Commissioner

[Kim Holburn]

On 2010/Jun/22, at 9:09 PM, Craig Sanders wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 06:48:57PM +1000, Kim Holburn wrote:
>>
>> On 2010/Jun/22, at 4:29 PM, Richard Chirgwin wrote:
>>> At the physical layer, you're absolutely right. But a WiFi network  
>>> is
>>> not only Layer One - it's also the MAC layer, Layer Two.
>>
>> Bzzzzzzt.  Wrong.  It is the link layer or layer 1.  MAC (Media  
>> Access
>> Control) address, "ethernet" layer.  Layer 2 is the IP layer.
>
> depends. if he's talking OSI model[1] (which seems to be the case)  
> then
> it's layer 2.
>
> the (roughly 4-layer) IP model[2] doesn't map exactly to the 7-layer  
> OSI
> model.
>
>
> [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSI_model
>
> [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TCP/IP_model


Yeah correct.  It's a pity the names are so similar.

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