You could probably mitigate some of the risks of providing a free/open wireless service, if it was heavily restrictive on what ports were open and if you used deep packet inspection to block common p-2-p ports and service types. You would still potentially have an issue with traffic going in and out of your network encrypted which you couldn't deep packet inspect, but in that situation you can genuinely say you have made every technical effort possible and I guess the RIAA would have difficulty proving it was copyrighted material.
Many Thanks Peter Peter Methven. MBCS, BENG (Hons) Network Specialist Computer Centre (The Allen McTernan Building) Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh EH14 4AS Telephone: +44 (0)131 4513516 / 07774 427548 Email p.j.meth...@hw.ac.uk <mailto:p.j.meth...@hw.ac.uk> From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:wireless-...@listserv.educause.edu] On Behalf Of Scott Powell Sent: 05 August 2009 19:33 To: WIRELESS-LAN@LISTSERV.EDUCAUSE.EDU Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] Open-Free Access wireless I've read some responses on how to handle guest access, but I'm being asked a slightly different question by my campus. We are considering providing "free"/"open" wireless access on campus. I can think of a myriad of issues, but I need to find out if anyone else has done this and any comments you might have. We've been registering our user base, and then they access the real network via a webvpn. Guests were handled via the web auth in the Cisco WLC. My biggest concerns are how to handle RIAA and Movie industry copyright notices, CALEA, as well as the "unthinkable" activity over our wireless network. If it is "open", I don't know how I'll be able to identify who did what if at all. Any feedback will be appreciated. Scott Powell Network Manager Wittenberg University spow...@wittenberg.edu 937-525-3821 937-327-7372 fax www.wittenberg.edu ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. -- Heriot-Watt University is a Scottish charity registered under charity number SC000278. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
