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Originally Posted by Quentin
As the legal theory here goes, the difference between leaving your router wide open and having it hacked is that if you password protect your router, that is an example of taking "reasonable care," whereas leaving it wide open is not.
If you password protect your router, the hacker has to engage in an overtly illegal act just in order to access the wifi; as such, there's no way a court is going to say you were negligent in that scenario.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree with theory of negligence being proposed here, just that under that theory, there's a big (and likely dispositive) difference between an entirely unsecured router and one that has been password protected and has to be compromised in order for illegal use of it by third parties to take place.
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the big problem is if you secure your WiFi then the lawyers argue that you must have done it because your WiFi was secure and you have to prove that it was hacked to get "away" with it.
The fundamental problem with the argument is that leaving your keys in your car is not the DEFAULT configuration, your car is sold to you without the keys in the ignition
you have to choose to change it from that default position when you negligently leave your keys in the ignition .
WiFi is set-up by default to be open, it not designed to be secure out of the box, hell most people will not even set-up a secure WiFi properly (use dictionary words instead of mixing in case and special characters)