| Here's one to worry about. What legal responsibilities do hotspot owners have for activity conducted by their customers? This is prompted by the discovery that Wayport run an open email server for their customers and T-Mobile intercept email destined for other servers and route it via their own email server (I think). Both of these are reactions to a real need for their hotspot customers to send email. But both are effectively open relays with no authentication. How much information and logging do they really have in place to positively identify the customer? The real answer here is for the mainstream ISPs to support SSL and STMP-AUTH so that their paid up customers have access to email services no matter how or where they connect to the internet. At home, work or from a hotspot. Until then hotspot providers need to provide some solution so that hotspot users can send email. But just giving blanket access to anyone using the hotspot is not the answer. [from: JB Wifi] |
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