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

[Sandy Harris]

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 "Störerhaftung"
>
> 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.