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Re: Open Wireless Movement

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Post by drbawb » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

toddkaufmann wrote: post #49

lumpypua wrote: post #16

Until somebody uses your open wireless for child porn and the cops come asking you questions.

Yes; this happened to me. They didn't come asking questions so much as having a search warrant... http://bit.ly/seizure1111

> ... they asked [us] to wait outside while they conducted a preliminary search ...

Is that legally enforceable? They have a search warrant, not a warrant for your arrest. How are they in a position to demand you leave the premises?

That's some scary stuff either way, thanks for sharing.

Re: Open Wireless Movement

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Post by marssaxman » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 7:14 PM UTC

lumpypua wrote: post #16

Until somebody uses your open wireless for child porn and the cops come asking you questions.

How often does this actually happen? I am just not worried about it. I have been running open wireless access points at every home I've lived in for the past fourteen years.

Re: Open Wireless Movement

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Post by elasticdog » Wed, Jun 11, 2014, 7:50 PM UTC

na85 wrote: post #19

lgierth wrote: post #6

One solution to the privacy problem is running OpenWRT with cjdns [1] on the routers and clients, and using its IPTunnel feature [2]. The list of supported platforms is steadily growing [3], and it'd be something that runs alongside the existing IPv4/DHCP setups just fine. [1] https://github.com/seattlemeshnet/meshbox [2] https://github.com/cjdelisle/cjdns/tree/master/tunnel [3] Desktop/Server Linuxes, Android, OpenW…

The author of cjdns himself admits that it is aimed at power users/enthusiasts. cjdns will never be a workable solution for the general public, and I wish people would stop recommending it.

> cjdns will never be a workable solution for the general public, and I wish people would stop recommending it.

I disagree...I believe in its current state it is not catering to the general public, but it's basically alpha software with a small bootstrapped network. Long-term, the idea is to make things more user friendly and appeal to a wider audience, but it's inaccurate to say it will "never be workable". Recommending it to a highly-technical targeted audience like HN seems entirely appropriate.

* I run 4 cjdns nodes