> -----Original Message----- > I was wondering what would happen if someone downloaded some music > illegally or some child porn? How would you prove it was them and not > you? Being a good neighbor is nice but you need to be > careful for sure.
Dunno. I suppose I'd show some logs from the DHCPd server or HostAPd or something that showed the MAC addresses used at that particular time of the infraction? How do Coffee shops handle that? They have open WiFi -- many of them (here in Seattle at least), you can just jump on from anywhere. Hell there are about 12 WAP right here in my building that I can see and several are not WEP or WPA. When our network goes down, sometimes I just jump on them. :) Besides, most sites that actually LET you download these days require some sort of login anyways. So that hypothetical person in your scenario would have that on their computer, whereas I would not. ;-p I don't really think about it too much. I've thought about setting up a "hotel page" type system, but it's just one more thing I don't have time to futz with. If push came to shove, I'd just start blacklisting ALL MAC's (or I should say whitelisting *my* MACs actually). I'd really like to be part of a mesh, but where I live I'm in the middle of suburbia. D.Vin http://daevid.com (check out the free code section!) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
