I have a prediction:  I think we'll soon be seeing cases in the news of lawsuits brought against people and companies that offer unsecured wireless internet access.  For example, places like airports (Las Vegas being one), coffee shops, hotels, and even private residences.  I think the lawsuits will be because of illegal things done via the internet, accessed via an unsecured wireless network.  If you drive through any city or highly populated area, you can most likely pick up several different wireless signals at one time, most of them being from private residences.  So let's say that a person uses your wireless connection to plan out a murder or learn about building a bomb.  Our government doesn't feel too fondly about things like this.  So let's say that government officials figure out that the person used your unsecured wireless connection to access this illegal or dangerous information.  I think you'd be held responsible because you didn't restrict access to your internet service.  But then you could blame-shift and say it was because the company that sold you the wireless router didn't automatically have wireless security set up.  And then we'd find out that these companies intentionally disable security when they sell wireless routers because they actually want the whole world to be covered with wireless routers so that you can pick up a signal anywhere you go.  And they depend on the average person's technological ignorance to not read the manual and figure out how to secure their wireless router.  So that's my prediction.  Just wait and see. #technology