When I asked Ofcom’s press office what steps someone could take to safeguard their network, other than password-protection – which by definition means the end of open Wi-Fi – the regulator unhelpfully suggested that users should talk to their ISPs.
At a Westminster e-Forum on file-sharing yesterday, BT’s director of group industry policy, Simon Milner, summed up the ridiculousness of this position. “How on earth do you try to prove that you didn’t infringe copyright [on your Wi-Fi connection] and didn’t take reasonable steps [to protect the connection]?” he asked.
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