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You are not required by law to lock your door, or windows. If someone breaks in, it is still burglary. Nor are you required by law to lock your door's car. If it is stolen and used in a bank robbery that is not the car owner's problem, nor if someone runs a red light while driving it. Analog with that you are not required to lock down your router. There is something to be said for presumed innocent until proven guilty. That principle is applicable in cyber crimes as much as in any other crime. |
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There was talk about also logging every site you visit (just the domain part) and the source/destination of every email you send or connection you make. I'm not sure if that was put into practice though or if it's still being fought by ISPs. I am pretty sure that they at the very least retain assigned IPs though. A quick google suggest the US looked at a similar law in 2011, not sure if it's in place or not now though, anyone in the US know? http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/security...bill-40093559/ Last edited by JoeD; 05-04-2012 at 12:40 PM. |
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I live alone. I'm an IT professional, and have been for 30-odd years. I have a properly secured wireless network (WPA2, lengthy string of completely random characters for a passphrase). Nobody but me ever uses my computers. Doesn't take a genius to figure out that if copyrighted material is downloaded via my IP connection then I'm the one who did the deed. Now, let's suppose I'm a pirate. I think to myself, "aha! If I remove the encryption from my WiFi, I've got a 'get out of jail free' card. If anyone tries to prosecute me for copyright infringement, all I have to do is say that someone else must have used by WiFi without my knowledge!" True or not? If true, it's a sad state of affair, to my mind ![]() |
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No, the hacker is culpable. But a properly secured WiFi network (WPA or WPA2, with a pass-phrase that's a string of random characters) is unlikely to be hacked. It can be done, but it takes considerable resources to do so.
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My understanding is that WPA2 encryption, with a random pass-phrase, is rather difficult to hack. Please do correct me if I'm wrong about that. Last time I looked the standard hacking tools relied on a dictionary search to try to generate the encryption keys. Use of a random sequence of characters defeats that.
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![]() There is no one sitting youtside your house hacking your router it owuld be easier to just move to the next house and try again. |
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Just checked Cox' LE Guide - they maintain for "up to six months". Atlantic Broadband says 6 months. |
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WPA2 afaik is fine (currently). But there may be plenty of people who were told when they bought their routers or had the service installed by their ISP not to use an open network or WEP as it's insecure, yet WPA was fine at the time. Those people are likely still running WPA and are likely unaware of the need to change. Last edited by JoeD; 05-04-2012 at 12:55 PM. |
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Let me pose another scenario (and this is one I've encountered many times). Three grown deadbeat adult children live with Mom, who is elderly, unfamiliar with technology and, quite frankly, a little senile. Who's name do you think all the utilities (including the internet) are in? So 85 year old mom is now responsible? |
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Also, I'm only assuming ISPs are now keeping that info, based on when the EU data retention laws went into effect (back in 2009), I'm not _certain_ they're actually implemented yet though. It may be ISPs are still fighting it or the UK dragged its feet putting into law here. |
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