Re: Home wireless free hotspot

[ron () hotmail com]

Although your intent is "noble", I think you are asking for a whole lot of trouble.  Sure your "intended audience", the 
neighbors MAY take advantage of it.  But, how many typical home users are they technically savy enough to figure it 
out?  More likely you will be found by a wardriver/hacker and shared with others for less than legal purposes.

Then when it is discovered you are going to have to explain why it was left open.  You will be stuck with the fact that 
you intended for other, unknown, people to freely use it.  So even though you didn't do any of the actions some of the 
mud may still stick to you.  

If you want to share with neighbors, you are better off setting up a secured connection you can share with limited 
audience for their "emergency" use.

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