RE: Home wireless free hotspot

[Quark Group - Hilton Travis <Hilton () quarkgroup com au>]

G'day John,

An airport can do this as they own the property on which this usage is occurring.  You don't - you own the property on 
which the Wi-Fi AP is located, but not the property on which it is being accessed, and this is one of the likely 
stumbling blocks.

That, and your ISP's policies.

Those and the fact that as it is your connection, you're responsible for what T&C breaches happen from people using 
your open and/or shared Wi-Fi.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On Behalf Of John Lightfoot
> Sent: Tuesday, 16 March 2010 10:15
> To: 'Dimyan, Michael'; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Home wireless free hotspot
>
> A fair question, although there are many towns and airports that offer
> free
> Internet access so presumably there's a way to get around the problem
> of
> liability for illegal activity.
>
> The ISP service agreement question is also fair, and I'll have to do
> some
> research as to what's allowed by my agreement.  But I won't be
> advertising
> the service or encouraging it, just not minding if someone "borrows"
> it.  I
> don't see it as significantly different than someone who hooks a
> Linksys
> router to his/her cable modem connection and doesn't change the default
> settings.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dimyan, Michael [mailto:Michael.Dimyan () timewarner com]
> Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 7:14 PM
> To: 'John Lightfoot'; security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: RE: Home wireless free hotspot
>
> Aside from the possibility that sharing your internet connection may be
> a
> violation of your ISP service agreement, the question I would ask is if
> you'd be liable for any potentially illegal activity that may take
> place on
> your connection.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
> Behalf Of John Lightfoot
> Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 3:11 PM
> To: security-basics () securityfocus com
> Subject: Home wireless free hotspot
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a home wireless network that I'd like to make available to
> neighbors
> who need to borrow a connection from time to time.  Consider it karmic
> repayment for the times I've had to borrow someone else's open
> connection.
> Of course, I'd like to do it securely, so I'm looking for some advice.
>
> My main network has a wireless router connected to the Internet, with a
> few
> wired connections to my home computers.  The main router's wireless
> network
> is protected by WPA, access control via MAC address, etc.  My thought
> is I
> would attach a second wireless router (Netgear) to a port off the main
> router and leave it unsecured, using a second subnet, and block any
> routing
> between the two subnets, other than straight out to the Internet, but
> I'm
> not sure the best way to do that.
>
> So, a few questions:
>
> If I set up a second router with a subnet "subservient" to my main
> router,
> presumably it has to get an IP address within the address space of the
> main
> network, but how can I limit access to that network to only my Internet
> interface?
>
> Would it make more sense for my secure network to be subservient to the
> main
> network, i.e. open up the main network and secure a secondary subnet
> off it?
>
> I also have a Secure Computing SG 300 Firewall/VPN appliance, could I
> configure that help keep the networks separate and my home network
> secure?
> It's got a lot of nice features, but I'm not sure it would help make my
> configuration more secure.
>
> This may be a very bad idea, so I'd also be happy to hear why that's so
> if
> it's true.
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
>
> John Lightfoot
>
>
>
>
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