--- will hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm not a very practical target. The 3 gigs of > photos and what not I used to serve out to friends > and family by ftp don't make a very inviting target > either. Imagine the kind of publicity they would > get for raiding someone sharing baby pictures with > their mom.
Uh, depending on the nature of the baby pics, you could be opening yourself for three types of undesired consequences. 1) Some freak grabs the pics and posts them in places you would not expect, in a possibly altered state. 2) Some tech from Cox randomly samples your FTP, sees the one picture out of context and reports you to the FBI. Much expense and hassle later you are released, hoepfully without the lead article on page one and the actual outcome on the bottom of page 19 in section F. 3) The FBI running their scan bot spots the pictures being downloaded and pics you up as part of a widely publicized sweep. Again, you get off, but it costs a lot of money because they arrain you before you get to saw dada. I amke it a point not to put any pics of my kids on the internet, simply because of the 1 in 1000 rule. One out of every one thousand people is certifiably crazy. The Internet tends to concentrate their efforts. As you said, because something can happen, doesn't mean it will. However, there are steps you can take to reduce the odds. I would at least make the FTP a blind site, where you need to know the file name to get to it. Doug ===== Warmest Regards, Doug Riddle http://www.dougriddle.com http://fossile-project.sourceforge.net/ http://www.libranet.com -- "Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the Peoples' Liberty Teeth." - George Washington -- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com
