On Aug 26, 2004, at 06:36, Travis Roy wrote:
If you have a coffee shop and and a open wireless network and some schmoe comes by and start playing hack the planet the poor coffee shop owner is ultimately responsible.
Is there precedent for this? If you replace 'wireless network' with 'telephone' or 'bread knives' or 'delivery van' wouldn't the criminal be found responsible? What happens if someone phones in a bomb threat from a privately-owned pay-phone in a cafe, does the shop owner do time?
Even with the 'contract' they're just as likely to get their IP blacklisted as they would without it. For any kind of defense against hypothetical lawsuit they need to be logging MAC addresses and IP addresses/ports with timestamps. Based on what Fred reported it sounds like they are, so vpn to your box. :) Even with such a log, you'd have to prove that the MAC that did the attacking _didn't_ belong to a company employee. Always hard to prove the negative, especially in a criminal matter since the criminal isn't going to worry about any company policies that might be in his way.
It's their connection, so they can do what they want, but it sounds like security theater.
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