How does a niche payment system have to do with the flaw?

At least as funny as job description looking for "Phyton developers".

Well, Nazi Germany did it too.

Interestingly, not even the evil Communists did this, they might have issued passports (with the note that they do not authorize the holder to return to their country), but even in the Cold War period, if you managed to emigrate legally, they let you take your property with you.

Which btw is atypical, most other countries link "paying taxes" to "residency". The US also have an "exit tax" which you pay if you want to get rid of the US citizenship. The only other occurrence of such a sick thing that comes would be how the Nazis treated emigrating Jews.

One really has to wonder how this civil forfeiture thing managed to survive without being challenged as unconstitutional, I mean the protection of property is rather spelt out in the US Constitution.

Funny, the product works for technical reasons in some parts Europe only.

Now, while drugs are illegal in most places here (for most drugs even in every place), the whole "War on Drugs" thing is an US-only aberration. Basically any drug trafficking that would draw the police (hint: we don't have that war thingie, and we don't have a standalone DEA, drugs are in most European countries handled as part of the regular police work) is so obvious, big, and visible that some frequency scanners would not help the perps.

Not for a WLAN name. It's one thing to try to impersonate somebody, but having some name in the WLAN, ...

Ok, guess it's a serious crime to have a WLAN called "I'll kill you if you use me"?

Sorry, since when is naming a WLAN grounds for criminal action? And what consists an "illegal" WLAN name?

Is it illegal to have a WLAN "Honeypot" because a group of "people strongly allergic to honey" start to go into panic seeing "Honeypot" on their phone?

Funny, now that you mention, I've got reasonably priced "metered" SIM cards in my phone and tab, plus a personal Mifi hotspot with a true flat fee sim card. The SIMs are from different operators, so I can get connectivity on 2 of the 3 local physical mobile networks.

So situations where I'd use any "public" wlan are rather sporadic, and limited to situations where mobile coverage is shit.

Most home routers won't work in a public setting, nowadays:

Please consider, that by default such devices are setup to provide DHCP from a small range of addresses.

Typically, SOHO router will provide less than 128 IP addresses. The problem is that they hand it out in a way that is tuned to a more stable environment, in ISP routers herearound I've seen 24h as a typical lease period. So if you have enough repeat customers, are located in an area that has spotty mobile coverage, people tend to get no IP address more often than you would prefer. Notice that in such situation, using a (semi-) random IP address from the network works quite well (but while you can do it easily enough on a laptop via tcpdump, figuring out network address, gateway and so on is not feasible on mobiles/tabs).

Furthernore, having a router that cannot handle that many TCP connections is kind of broken. I'm using a Linux PC as the LAN server/router, and you can blast around what you want, have 10K NATed TCP connections and everything works fine. The cable company's provided "router", OTOH, does not even handle long running ssh connections (especially when they go idle for periods) without any torrent traffic properly. Worse, it does not even send a RST packet, so your local ssh client thinks everything is fine till it tries to send something, ...

Pick any random Linux box, and it will have bash/openssl installed.

Xen on the other hand, rather specialized software, hence you have a couple of mega-users. It's easy to coordinate with a couple of professional organisations that are critically interested.

Without such usage clusters, it's much more difficult.

It's not about customers.

Every website under German jurisdiction has to follow certain rules. They slightly differ if the website is run for private purposes or commercial ones, but one of the things that you need to include is an electronic form of contact, that is responded to.

It's not about doing business, it's about providing an internet service, which comes with a number of rules in most countries.

Basically, anyone providing a website does need to provide an imprint with a possibility for a quick contact.

don't use their own products.

As an example for a common service where 4/1 mbit is problematic you can take Google Hangout.
Experience shows that 4/1 mbit is kind a certain minimum /(assuming that the connectivity is perfect), and I don't think that you'll manage two video chats on 4/1.

The experience comes from our team where some people have 8mbit DSLs, and they usually just turn off video to get reliable and useful audio. Hangouts being bandwidth hogs also pans out with the reported transferred data counters, e.g. a video call can can take a couple of 100MB very quickly (according to this, http://mashable.com/2012/11/14... Hangouts use ~900MB/h)

Now, consider that 1mbit upstream can transfer roughly 350MB/hour (that assumes an networking overhead and calculates with 10bit per byte).