This will be an ISP Abuse nightmare!!!  I hope all the users that agreed to share there connection read the AUP (acceptable use Policy) from there ISP before sharing there connection.


Brian

I'm not too sure smart bad guys will use this.

With hundreds of thousands of open WAP's kicking around why go to one where smarter people might be watching and prepare to do something about it?
Wouldn't you go from the linksys/netgear one the family down the street has just plugged in and left open?

If you have some hard core volunteers driving this, the community could effectively enforce good behaviour or capture data on those that break the rules.

Bad guys will always be around, but as long as there are people prepared to step up and find ways to track them down, they'll stay a minority.
Security, technology and people will adapt to rise to the new challanges.

That's where places like EH-net help the next gen become part of the security effort.

But personally, security worries aside, I think this is an amazing step forward in a free, connected world for everyone and anyone.

With efforts like a laptop for every child, getting more people on the 'net is critical to provide level playing field for everyone, anywhere in the world.

I suppose you need to look at it in the same way as you do the wireless cellular phone network. With pre-paid phones there is no expectation that you know who owns a given handset, same goes for community WiFi.

Jim