[Freedombox-discuss] Persistent Personal Names for Globally Connected Mobile Devices

[fiftyfour@waldevin.com (John Walsh)]

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> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] Persistent Personal Names 
> for Globally Connected Mobile Devices
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> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 2:25 AM, Marc Manthey <marc at let.de> wrote:
> >
> 
> > I have one little concern , here in germany (maybe 
> somewhere else ? ) ?
> > we have a law called "St?rerhaftung"
> >
> > http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St%C3%B6rerhaftung
> >
> > i cant find a proper translation for it ( disturber 
> responsibility ?? 
> > ) , but in short it means that the owner of a wifi/ hotspot or 
> > whatever its called when you share an ip with others, you are 
> > responsible !! , so if someone downloads mp3s, porn, the 
> owner could 
> > be be impeached.
> > and it happend several time here in germany. ? >>>>
> > ?http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wardriving ? !!
> ...
> > IMHO this affects all open wifi networks /mesh like freifunk 
> > whatever...........
> >
> > i am not sure how we could ?handle ?this problem, technicaly.
> 
> There is some work being done on this issue. See:
> http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2011/04/open-wireless-movement
> 
> I'd say that whatever EFF and others come up with in that 
> area will be something the Box should support, though in some 
> places the Box owner might need to disable it.

I would love to see FBX support this too. I have shopped around and the
cheapest broadband plan I can buy still leaves me with an excess download
allowance of 20GB every month. I would like to set a public Wi-Fi download
allowance that would give priority to fellow FBX users on "mesh computing
mode", followed by the general public in my area. Ideally, I wouldn't want a
single "Wardriver" sucking up all my allowance (I have met these kind of
people), but I don't even think FBX could stop that from happening :(

-- fiftyfour