Phil Leigh;275270 Wrote: 
> Fair enough... but why would they target YOUR network? Why would they
> expend a lot of effort to get on it (compared with say a Government
> site)

It depends who "they" are. If "they" are international terrorists then
I wouldn't assume they're interested in my network, I don't have any
information regarding how to make bombs out of face cream and airline
pretzels. On the other hand, if "they" are my neighbor's 16 year old
son...who knows what he might find on my network that he likes the look
of (music files, financial info, photos of my wife, etc). And he doesn't
even have to leave his bedroom to attack it - just download a cracker,
hit a button a wait a few minutes. As has been mentioned, it's not
difficult to switch on encryption, it doesn't cost anything, so I
simply don't understand why you wouldn't use it (unless of course you
were intentionally leaving an open access point - which is another
matter).


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