Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Per Jessen
wrote: what about your/your employers liability wrt possible criminal use of your wifi? A freeloader downloading child-pornography, making plans for world domination or sharing copyrighted material via bittorrent?
/Per
I don't know about in Zürich, but in the US I don't think the liability is significant.
Are you talking about the liability of being investigated.
That's the part of the problem, yes. There is however also a possiblity of an individual or a company being accused of having facilitated an unlawful activity by a third party without being an actual telecoms provider. When you're not an ISP or similar, all activity on your network is essentially your responsibility.
FYI: I'm aware of a situation where an apartment dweller had a wide open wireless. His neighbor used it to hack into his home PC. And then stored illicit images there. When the police came, yes they first arrested the owner of the PC. Further investigation showed he had nothing to with storing the images, so he was not convicted of child porn activity.
Sounds like just the kind of thing that would be very difficult to deal with: "I didn't download those pictures and I didn't store them on my PC". /Per -- Per Jessen, Zürich (3.8°C) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org