1. I said left unlocked and open.
2. If your family is still there, and they let somebody come inside, murder them, and steal everything, then they failed miserably at life by not knowing a three-digit emergency phone number (911).
3. If you're the only person capable of keeping your dumb doesn't-know-911 family alive, then why are you leaving home in the first place, let alone leaving the door unlocked?
Open coffee-shop wireless makes sense. Transmitting sensitive information in clear-text on such a network is shooting yourself in the foot with a rocket launcher, so you can't complain about them mapping those. See my previous post about hotels. A hotel catering to business travelers better have some kind of encryption implemented; if they don't, they're not doing their job very well. If a business is not willing to spend the money to implement a secure VPN for their employees, then data security is obviously not important to them, and they're asking for people to steal their stuff.
That's a failure in education. Any ISP handing out wireless routers should know damn well not to leave it unencrypted by default. Router manufacturers have been including "easy" automatic encryption buttons for years. For either one to include a 128MB USB stick with auto-setup of Windows WPA key wouldn't be much effort.
The idea that a company should be held responsible for the stupidity of random idiots disgusts me. Did people sue the local cement company for providing sidewalks up to their front doors after they got burglarized, before they finally got the idea of locking their doors when they left the house through their skulls?
