Hey, I am curious about your project. I also asked in the German Topic, but I just want to ask here again some questions.
First of all, how do you want to handel Wifi abuse like for example if someone is hand in someone others wifi data and try to get paid for this? I got toled that open wifi spots are not useable, but how about not open wifi spots from for example cafés, restaurants or hotels, which are using the same passwort over a longer time but normaly just for their guests? Someone other than the owener can fill in these informations and get paid for it.
Second how do you want to handel problems with abuse of wifi like someone is using internet through your service and downloads some illegal stuff, the owner get problems for this but hasn't done anything.
Greetings!
Hey,
Thanks for your questions. So firstly, most of the cafes, restaurants etc. that have WiFI for their customers only keep the WiFi open and ask their customers to log in via a web portal and our app won't support this. But yes there will always be a few places which keep the same password over time and intend to make it available only to customers. For a second just forget about the app and think about it. Will you be able to take the password once and share it with all your friends and you all could use that WiFi forever (since the password is not being changed) even when you are no longer customers? So you see that can happen even without the app. But to be on the correct side, we will have a point in our app's terms and conditions that when you upload any password you confirm that you are the owner of that WiFi or have express permission from the owner to upload it.
As for the second question, the first thing to understand is that there is zero incentive for anyone to use our app for illegal stuff since it would create unnecessary issues for him. He will first have to download the app, buy WiC, navigate to the WiFi and then pay for it and do the illegal stuff. it would make much more sense for him to go to a Starbucks and use their WiFi. It is the same logic that prevents 51% attacks on the Bitcoin network, a person with enough resources could do it but it wouldn't be beneficial to him to do so. Anyways, assuming that someone still goes ahead and does it, it will be the same like that person going to starbucks and doing it. The way the owner of the WiFi (Starbucks) is not at fault, the same way the WiFi owner will not be at fault.
Hope that clarifies it.
Thanks!
Thank you for clarifying this. I think you can't compare the free Starbucks Wifi with something like your app, because at least in Germany, a lot of free networks you have to log in with your date and some also are time limited and data limited.
Will there be an app intern log book with a centralized server which logs all activites of the user? Like when someone loged in into which network? Because this would be probably a help for persons who give their networks free to use through your service.