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Yep , absolutely right. What if someone uses your connection to perform a hack attack or a DDos attack ? It all traces back to your IP It would take time and trouble to persuade the authorities it wasn't you Steph Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, trewornan wrote: > > >> The other day I noticed some heavy usage on the router and discovered >> that someone was connected and using a considerable bandwidth - some >> nmapping, arpspoofing and wiresharking revealed three "unknown" MACs >> connected to the AP one of which I believe was downloading a bittorrent. >> > > Switch on encryption NOW, or disable wireless entirely. > > While, like you, I think it's nice to share, the down-side is that if > someone decides to download some kiddie porn, or other extreme material, > then the IP address is going to be traced to you and your address and > you're not going to be able to prove that it wasn't you - at best you'll > lose your computers while plod does a search, at worst it'll be jail time. > > There's always the possibility of a "drive by spammer", but I've never > heard of this actually happening. > > Unfortunately, that's the sad reality of the world we live in now. > > Gordon > > -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html