Malicious actors? That relies on there being malicious actors physically near you, which isn't necessarily a valid assumption. Set up a DMZ, try it, and see.
(B) Having your computers spuriously seized for a police investigation is a risk shared by every computer user, but those investigations cost money. They don't tend to seize your hardware frivolously, except to intimidate (fairly common for security researchers, for some reason). If you have a public Wi-Fi network, and there's no reason to believe you're a culprit, they're more likely to ask you to keep MAC address logs, or shut down the public Wi-Fi network, than assume you dunnit and try to prosecute with insufficient evidence. You're at far more risk running a Tor exit node than a public Wi-Fi network, and most Tor exit nodes don't get raided by the police.
Your neighbours are probably not cybercriminals. It's probably okay to be nice to them.
Not where i live. We have layers of rules specifically designed to prevent random actions by police.
Yes, the risk is quite low, but it's a risk shared by any occupant of an INTERPOL member state.
WiFi isn't some sort of aether, it is created.
Earned? WTF logic is that? I pay for the water I drink. What in the world are you on about?
No, I don't think I will. I will continue to keep my wifi password protected so that randoms can't degrade my Internet speed by torrenting movies 24/7, send death threats to public officials from my IP address, or engage in other unsavory activities.
Not sure why you are equating a natural resource like air with a paid service like Internet connectivity, but it comes off as bizarre and naive at best.
some ppl view "internet service" similar as access to drinking water, which some countries have legal obligations for and the public sentiment would be very much against you if you deny it to any stranger.
some countries/ppl not so much
Dissidenting safely is their problem, not mine.
who knows what freaky stuff my community gets into.
Other than that, a very fascinating read, the link you shared. Patent stuff is silly, but were way less silly back then, and had more positive 2nd order effects back then.
It was cool how Tesla and Marconi held each other in high regard, and built on each other's works.
1. My billing is usage based, the bills could be astronomical
2. Laws around who is at fault are the person paying the bill. My IP address doing who knows what could easily land me in jail.
Sadly, the cons outweigh the pros
How much a better place the world would be if we could freely share ANYTHING without getting abused, sabotaged, taken advantage of, taken for granted, getting hate for revoking, whatever we offer?
If you ever go back, take the time to walk the hiking path behind the bathrooms. It goes into a gorgeous redwood grove. The boardwalk reminds me of the "tree" level in Myst.
I could be wrong but I've never seen redwoods in Massachusetts.
The first person he showed this to was his mother, who to her credit didn't accuse him of witchcraft but gave him a hug and supported him in all his future ventures.
He then went on to start a company building useful things on top of this discovery, including the first transatlantic wireless radio that saved tens of thousands of lives and is no doubt in part responsible for many of you alive reading this today.
Fast forward a century and skip the long hours and blood, sweat, and tears of millions of scientists and engineers and technicians and factory workers who have further built this technology so instead of just sending Morse code wirelessly at a few words per minute, we can send all of humanity's information to everyone on earth in seconds.
Wifi is one of the most beautiful creations and technological storylines in all of history.
Let's keep it open and free and not sully it with ads and passwords.