The EFF launches a router project [LWN.net]

The EFF launches a router project

Posted Jul 29, 2014 17:56 UTC (Tue) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
Parent article: The EFF launches a router project

As much as I'd love to provide bandwidth to anyone who comes by, doing so has much the same risks as running a Tor exit node: you risk being blamed for any resulting traffic. Doing so may also violate ISP policies.

Also, while the article doesn't say, I'd hope that the default policy is not "fixed percentage of available bandwidth" but rather "bandwidth that's not being used by the private network", with an optional (disabled by default) upper and lower bound.

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The EFF launches a router project

Posted Jul 31, 2014 8:08 UTC (Thu) by ortalo (guest, #4654) [Link] (2 responses)

I second your comment and imho, that's not a simple risk but a true question: how do you comply to the (many) laws that oblige one to provide the police the necessary means to pursue their investigations (via logging, user registration, etc.)?

NB: Please, no comment only on the adequacy of these laws, that's not the question here (though I agree this is certainly the problem).

The EFF launches a router project

Posted Jul 31, 2014 19:01 UTC (Thu) by SiliconSlick (guest, #39955) [Link] (1 responses)

I bit perplexed about this as well. My Netgear WNDR3700v3 has a built-in option for wireless "Guest" networks, but I'm not about to enable it. Spammers and kiddie-porn peddlers are the first things that come to mind whenever I consider it. Who would put themselves in the situation where they could be held responsible for those miscreants' actions? I'm sure as hell not going to.

The EFF launches a router project

Posted Jul 31, 2014 23:16 UTC (Thu) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

The guest network can also be under WPA2… Just post the password on a bulletin board or something.