Did I say there was? You wildly missed my point.

The point is not that it's common, but that it can happen at all. Someone may use a public connection to download illegal material and that, in today's touchy security environment, could easily lead to the cops hauling your computers away. Simple as that. No paranoia here. This is reality.

With a locked down private network, this unlikely event is made way more unlikely. Still, if your business wants to run that risk then, well, you're a "risk taker" by my definition.

To claim these risks are so grave that people running unsecured wifi must be idiots is comparable to saying that people who leave their personal cars parked on city streets are also idiots, since those cars be stolen and used in violent crimes.

A ridiculous comparison. If someone steals one of your company's van and does a drive by, the cops are hardly going to bust in and take out all your computers as evidence.

My post stands.