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Originally Posted by HarryT
Your IP connection, your responsibility to ensure its legal use. That's been the approach in the British courts, and it's one that I entirely agree with. To do otherwise is to give an open invitation to piracy (IMHO).
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While wireless encryption techniques, hiding your SSID, MAC filtering, etc. are best practice and will usually keep you safe from the casual hacker or your neighbors, it is not proof against a dedicated hacker, organization or government intent on stealing your information, identity, or bandwidth. In most (but not all) cases, a risk analysis will reveal that the benefits of a minimally secured wireless LAN will far outweigh the risk.
I am a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and I cannot say with certainty that my personal wireless system has not been compromised; only that it probably hasn’t. How then would the average person insure against misuse of his/her IP address? I, with my fancy certificate on the wall can’t!
In this case the Judge is right on.