> And if your neighbor is downloading inappropriate content, are you at
> fault or are you a common carrier?
>
> I doubt common carrier status would apply to supplying your neighbors
> with your residential broadband service.
>
> It's a very slippery slope. The true paranoid among us would probably
> use WPA2 and disable SSID broadcasts...
How do places like coffee shops deal with this issue?
I'd rather be neighbor-friendly and risk having to defend myself in
case of an extremely unlikely occurrence than to maximally lock
everything down and monitor everything in a paranoid fashion. Come
on, people, Free Software is all about sharing with your neighbor!
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