[ale] Putting wifi in the house

[Greg Freemyer]

On 1/31/06, Philip Polstra <ppolstra at gmail.com> wrote:
> It isn't totally pointless.  It will detour the casual bandwidth leach.
>
>  For those of you that think it is fine to let your neighbors leach off your
> bandwidth consider this scenario:  Your neighbor leaches off your network
> with his Windoze laptop.  Your neighbor visits porn sites.  Your neighbor
> picks up adware/spyware/viruses/worms.  Your neighbor's laptop starts
> spewing spam.  Your ISP shuts down your e-mail ability, and perhaps all your
> access.
>
>  I don't care if others freeload on my network, but I don't trust them not
> to cause problems.

If you want to do a worst case, change that to:

Your neighbor browses child porn sites.  FBI tracks usage back to your
house and arrests you.  Somehow the paper finds out and the world is
notified that you have been arrested for child porn.  Hopefully your
lawyer gets you off since you didn't do anything illegal, but it is
pretty hard to restore your good name after the fact.

Greg
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Greg Freemyer
The Norcross Group
Forensics for the 21st Century