A Down Side to Open Wireless

An interesting byproduct of maintaining an open wireless network? Apparently a man in Mumbai had his life disrupted by a raid on his property when authorities suspected his open wireless as being the source for messages relating to a recent bombing.

So what happens when a crime is alleged to have been committed using your open network?

For individuals who happen to get caught up in a crime involving something like what happened in Mumbai, and who don't have the backing of corporate legal departments, I suspect that the process wouldn't be much fun.

A person has open wireless because:

They don't know it is open.
They know it is open but don't know how to secure it.
They know how, but are to lazy to bother securing it.
They know how to secure it, but they don't really care.
They know how, and they are leaving it unsecured on principle.

If someone gets caught up in something like this, I hope they are in one of the latter categories, rather than in one of the first couple categories.