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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.
Too bad that has nothing to do with security or insecurity...more like stupidity.
This is a problem for Comcast, not us.
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$ wget -O - http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/18/safe
Just remember, every time you run an insecure network, you run terrorism.
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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