If your broadband uses Wi-Fi , as frankly many, if not most of us with more than one PC do (
this is rather sad but at present I live alone and have 1 classic desktop, one all-in-one desktop, and 1 regularly used laptop -- pathetically I also have two other laptops and two desktops that are in the closet waiting to be recycled,
seven computers for one person...plus the PC I use at my office -- hard to believe I've been single so long, right ladies?*) you may want to make sure you use a password. Not simply because it might keep you from getting hacked in the classic manner. Rather,
it might prevent this:
A man was accused of downloading thousands of images of child pornography. Disgusting and gross, right? Yup. But it wasn't him! Turns out, it was his neighbor that had tapped into his home's open Wi-Fi network who downloaded the child porn.
*2011 submission for longest sentence ruining parenthetical.
Rising Hegemon
6 comments:
well ah nevah in all my borned agin days heard of such a thing! I'm shocked, just schocked.
How else can one lonely man feed a harem of computers?
vox
One wonders how long it will take the police to figure out that if the suspect has WiFi without the security turned on, there's reason to investigate further before breaking in with guns drawn.
If they were any good at their jobs, they would have used his wifi network to < strike>hack get warrants for all computers tapping into his network prior to arresting him...
isn't that kind of what the geniuses in the cybercrime units are supposed to do? investigate prior to arrest?
I knew there was a reason I installed the password.
squiregeek -
There is never a reason for not breaking in with guns drawn. Unless of course he is wealthy and well connected.
things are getting hard for pervs.
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