On: Why Bruce Schneier runs an open Wi-Fi network, and why you too should

[ojbyrne]

Though somewhere down the road, when the hippie experience turns into Altamont, is every person with a home network going to have a privacy policy? Will we all have to buy the same software the hotels and airports use just to avoid liability?

For example, what happens if two people connect to your home network both without your knowledge, one does something bad involving your network and the other person's computer? Serial killer bad?

Giant liability bills ensue.

[mhb → ojbyrne]

If a community garden supplies free water, are they liable when someone uses the water to drown someone else?

[ojbyrne → mhb]

I don't know. Are they?

[mhb → ojbyrne]

I'm thinking no.