France has passed a law making an open wifi owner responsible of "negligent security", a legal offense. I am not aware of a single ruling about open access wifi

France has passed a law making an open wifi owner responsible of "negligent security", a legal offense. I am not aware of a single ruling about open access wifi. I used to groan and add a password to my open wifi but then I saw one of the MP who actually voted the law who marveled, during a trip in S.Korea that he could connect without hassle to open wifis. "In France we always have to register, what a pain! Why do we make things complicated for ourselves?" Reading that, I decided that open wifi respected the spirit of the law, and that stupid guy (Thierry Mariani, for those interested) could probably quoted before a tribunal to argue exactly that.