SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks

cachedout writes "SCO's Ralph Yarro had the floor yesterday at the Utah Technology Commission meeting in front of Utah lawmakers. Yarro proposed that free wireless sites and subscribers should be held responsible should any porn be delivered to minors because hotspots are apparently where kids go to watch porn all day long. Yarro told lawmakers that open wireless access points should be made a crime because we have an Internet out of control."

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Re:Ah come on...

[c0d3h4x0r]

So if I have a unsecured wireless access point in my home [...] would I be held liable for that?

In an ideal world, you'd just be held liable for being too stupid to secure your access point.

I live in a townhome on a street with many others and my wife and I can pick up at least ten completely unsecured wifi networks from our living room, and see windows boxes with file sharing wide-open and unsecured. And this is in Redmond, WA. If a bunch of Microsoft computer geeks can't figure out how to secure their wifi routers, then hope is lost for the rest of humankind.