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EFF Releases Wireless Router Firmware For Open Access Points
klapaucjusz writes:
The EFF has released an experimental router firmware designed make it easy to deploy open (password-less) access points in a secure manner. The EFF's firmware is based on the CeroWRT fork of OpenWRT, but appears to remove some of its more advanced routing features.
The EFF is asking for help to further develop the firmware. They want the open access point to co-exist on the same router as your typical private and secured access point. They want the owner to be able to share bandwidth, but with a cap, so guests don't degrade service for the owner. They're also looking to develop a network queueing, a minimalist web UI, and an auto-update mechanism. The EFF has also released the beta version of a plug-in called Privacy Badger for Firefox and Chrome that will prevent online advertisers from tracking you.
we have freifunk. They develop such software. It also bypass the so called "störerhaftung" (disturber liablility), which makes people liable for anyone that used their hotspot as long as they cannot prove they secured their wifi as much as they could.
Do you really trust your mobile telco much more than a random wifi router?
I dont.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
The 'fraud squad' already contacted me about credit card skimming traced to our home internet, whereby someone had hacked our wifi in a drive-by usage. They suggested we change our password but you wonder how secure WPA2 is anyway...
The local ISP, Telstra, is said to soon be trialling nationwide 'free wifi' to ADSL2 customers by offering a free modem with segregated wifi. So I wonder what firmware they plan to use.
> What I don't get is why on earth you'd want to give any of your internet bandwidth to the public if you're living in a private residence.
> I see absolutely no benefit to me in running one.
I do it because it costs me nothing to help out someone.
> What's the point of 4G and shit like that if in the end you're sill relying on peoples' free wireless access points?
Indeed. What is the point of paying for 4G by the bit when you can use free wifi instead?
I think you've answered your own question.
Why did someone mod this guy down?
Illegal use of your access point could have serious consequences (unless it somehow confers Common Carrier Protection of Interneting +4 which I'm unaware of)
And how many Starbucks owners do you see in federal prison?
So if you're sharing your wi-fi with the public at large and someone commits an "Internet Nasty" while connected via your router - who is criminally liable?
Who's liable when they roll into the parking lot of the local Best Western and do the same thing?
Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.
It's called sharing. The world would be a better place if more people did it.
Making it public is what makes you immune. If it's not public, then you're verifying that all activity from your IP is your own. Making your connection free for others to use re-anonymizes your IP address.
Firstly, running an open wifi point would be against my TOS
Secondly, being in breach of point the first, the police would then turn your argument round on it's head...running a public access point sir?, must be trying to bury your illegal traffic in amongst everyone else's..You're fuckin' nicked, me old beauty!
immunity my arse...you do realise that the upstream monitoring logs and classification of the traffic which led them to you in the first instance will then be produced in a court of law against you, and you'll then have to account for it?
I don't know if you've noticed, but the old innocent until proven guilty thing doesn't really apply when it comes to certain classes of crap nowadays, especially online, especially if there's a whiff of terrorism or paedophillia..