On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:36:15PM +0000, Edward Ned Harvey (blu) wrote: > The risk of being hacked is *not* so much the risk of someone > accessing your mail. It's the risk of someone doing illegal shit > on your system, and you getting the blame for it. Try 10 years in > prison, and being permanently registered as a sex offender, probably > getting divorced, because someone thought that was *your* kiddie > porn. You find yourself in the position of being presumed guilty, > having to prove your innocence, because illegal material was indeed > found in your system, or in your account. >
Has this scenario, that someone uses another's system or ip to download child porn or violate copyrights, ever happened to anyone in a real legal case where the innocent party wasn't able to establish his or her innocence? It's something I've wondered about in considering whether to open a wireless access point for neighbours and passers by. Now I don't think either of my laptops' wireless chips can function as access points but I'm curious about it still: perhaps in the future I'll have something to offer. As I recall, the EFF tended to be quite dismissive of this possibility when they were promoting the idea that people share their internet connections. -- Mike Small [email protected] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
