[AusNOG] Google creepier than Conroy?

[Jay Mitchell]

Eric Pinkerton wrote:



>>It's considered to be neighbourly to open your WiFi and it some what
protects you against government accusations of  piracy as who was using the
WiFi in open WiFi is hard to pin down.

 

> This is known as the cheerleader defence, and if you have to depend upon
it when some 'unneighbourly' neighbour uses your naivety to upload child
pornography your mileage may vary!

> 

>
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/wireless_security_cheerleader_defenc
e/

> 

> ;-)

 

Whilst this is not entirely the same, this poor shmuck thought that running
a public Tor exit node was the neighbourly thing to do:

 

http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-opera
te-a-tor-exit-node/

 

 

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