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Originally Posted by bossku69
i think thats kind of the basis for this, not protecting you the downloading queen, but the person who is to stupid to protect their wireless network. So the problem comes when your just some 40 year old lady who got a wireless router through her ISP to use with her laptop, now facing criminal charges 
I just checked and almost all my neighbors have an open wifi with no password protection. When I was in LA my neighbor had a wifi signal that was stronger than mine when I was in my living room and my stupid laptop would always try to connect to it (because he had the same SSID as the router at a clients office "linksys").
I used to get fed up and just log into his router (yes, he didnt even set a password besides "admin") and turn off his wifi. then about a day later i would see it turn back on and finally i never saw it again, but ironically that same day one started to pop up with "netgear" |
most 128/256 bit encrypted passwords can be brute force obtained with free scripting tools
so even setting up security on a standard wireless router is not enough to protect you from liablity.
Which is totally fucked up.
What was funny is that the RIAA has been trying to get laws passed that basically make you liable to the same extent as if you were the actual downloader just because you paid for the internet connection.
And many people try and argue that the way it should be because it is too difficult to catch the downloaders if you didn't.
Amazingly enough if you proposed that the kiddie porn laws should be changed so that everyone behind the same gateway ip should be jailed to make it easier to catch pedos they would cry bloody murder.