[mdlug] The financial & legal danger of wireless in the house...

[Jeff Hanson]

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Aaron Kulkis <akulkis00 at gmail.com> wrote:
> A few years ago, I posted on the problems that could result
> from using wireless networking in an apartment or house
> (i.e. no "corporate veil" to protect you from personal
> liability) & lot of people said I was nuts.
>

A different opinion:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2008/01/my_open_wireles.html

I have an open wireless connection through IPCop.  It's
bandwidth-limited in a very secure manner - an ISA Ethernet NIC.  I
did get a message from Charter about a music copyright violation
complaint from somebody.  Nobody on the internal network would have
been interested in the type of music that the claim referenced so I
knew it was from the WiFI (the traffic pattern indicated it also).
The claimed violation was detected in the early AM which matched the
traffic.  I simply plugged the cable modem into an appliance timer so
it shuts off between midnight and 6am.  More or less eliminated the
problem and keeps the address changing.