Re: Guest Wifi Policy?

[Brian Erdelyi <brian_erdelyi () yahoo com>]

I am not a lawyer blah blah blah... the single most portant thing you should do is advise your client consult with a 
lawyer.

Some might say your client is essentially an ISP providing Internet access and liability would be same.  One major 
difference is that an ISP has a relationship with it's customers and may take efforts to enforce the acceptable use 
policy.

You say your client isn't doing anything fancy.  No content filtering.  If the network causes damage to someone else 
and your client can't hold an individual accountable they will likely be liable.

What is your client doing to prevent anonymous access?  What is your client doing to enforce the AUP and prevent damage 
to others?  If the answer is still "nothing fancy" there may be some serious issues.  One scenario... the RIAA finds a 
user on the network infringing copyrights.  If your client has a lot of money you can be sure the RIAA will try to get 
some of it.  Or how about a drive by user distributes child pornography from the network?

It's all fine to pass the buck with an AUP but if you don't do anything to try and enforce it the buck will stop at 
your client.

.b 

On Apr 12, 2011, at 2:14 PM, "Timothy Ouellette" <touellette83 () gmail com> wrote:

> Gentlemen,
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> I am tasked with providing a Guest Wi-Fi solution for one of my clients. The client already has an enterprise WLAN 
> which is secured with radius and all that good stuff. Plan for the Guest Wi-Fi is to simply broadcast a second SSID 
> on a separate VLAN taking them straight out to an onsite DSL circuit. Nothing fancy, no content filtering intended or 
> desired by the client. Just open internet obviously secured and separated from their private network. I do intend to 
> put up a captive portal or some sort of page which forces all users accessing the guest network to ‘agree’ with the 
> internet usage policy.
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> So my question here is does anyone know what I have to do to ensure that my client is not liable for anything that 
> happens on this guest network, i.e. someone gets hacked, or some pervert is browsing from their IP and the FBI get’s 
> involved etc... My assumption is that you need to have a proper captive portal with proper verbiage on your ‘user 
> agreement’ and I’m also assuming you need to log ‘clicks’ on the page when users ‘agree’ to your usage policy.
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> Any experience or thoughts on this one?
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> Thanks,
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> Tim
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