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Safe and Insecure?
JoeCotellese writes "Can making your network insecure actually improve your security? That's the question asked in this story running in Salon. The author makes the case that by 'making my Internet connection available to any and all who happen upon it, I have no way to be certain what kinds of songs, movies and pictures will be downloaded by other people using my IP address. And more important, my ISP has no way to be certain if it's me.'"
Bacon grease cures heart disease!
Unknown host pong.
Sounds like a Zen master was smoking some weed and found a network administrator manual to read to pass the time while his friend ran down to the 7-11 for munchies.
I never know who might get shot or when! And the police would never find out if it was me doing the shooting!!
This is brilliant. I'm in total awe.
If you leave your front door wide open, you have a smaller chance of being robbed!
If you leave your keys in the car with the windows open, your car has a smaller chance of being stolen!
If you continue to make silly claims, some people might believe you!
Too bad that has nothing to do with security or insecurity...more like stupidity.
It work until a really malicious guy secure up your wireless access point, just before you get busted...
Yes, in the same way that lighting yourself on fire will (eventually) make you impervious to flames! The fact that you will be a smoking pile of ashes would be a drawback however.
I Am My Own Worst Enemy
This is a problem for Comcast, not us.
_ and_insecure/index.html | sendmail abuse@comcast.net
$ wget -O - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe
Let me get this straight...
I won't get hacked because I leave my computers open to hackers?
Perhaps he's hoping that real hackers (not crackers/pirates) will see him as the lame dipstick he is, take pity on him and leave him alone, to move on to more challenging hacking...
Just remember, every time you run an insecure network, you run terrorism.
You kick ass. :)
First, the premise that security is no more than avoiding lawsuits for copyright infringement.
Yeah... and the fact that this premise was copied verbatim from the article and also included in the slashdot summary.
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