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In the 2010s, the FCC began enforcement proceedings against more than one hotel chain for using Wi-Fi deauthentication attacks against guests using their own Wi-Fi hotspots instead of the official hotel Wi-Fi networks. The claims were settled, so there's no court ruling on the matter, but our office is inclined to believe that the FCC has legal authority over such attacks. But we definitely encourage you to share your views on the record.

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I'll do that, after taking some time to actually read the relevant CFR Parts to ensure my understanding is as reasonably informed as I can.

Thanks to you and your colleague for making that process well-announced.

For the record here (and I'll add to the comments above): I'm in favor of perfect regulation that would allow the FCC to perform that hotel enforcement action, provided it didn't significantly further impair the ability of hobbyists and entrepreneurs to create prototype products that use RF communications without having to engage with the FCC or third-party certification labs at every turn/step. (I worry that perfect regulation of an unlicensed usage of the spectrum is at least very difficult and may be practically impossible and I'm pretty sure that I don't want to flip all WiFi usage over to FCC-license-required.)

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