I think the same things applies to ISPs. I doubt they fret over
the open WAP where someone shares access periodically to their
broke neighbor. It's the ones that facilitate the neighbor's
bandwidth-sucking p2p server, or the spammer, or ...
- Dan.
Hello Dan,
I agree - My ISP didn't seem too alarmed at all when I discussed the
fact that my neighbour was attempting to get onto my connection.
However, he was very quick to warn that were I to allow this to
happen that I could be held responsible for everything she or her
network analyst brother did on-line. Should he be the type to
download thousands of child porn files or engage an undercover
officer in a chat about sex with a minor, I would be the one
explaining myself when the police came to the door with a search
warrant and seized all my stuff - just as Bob suggested.
I could face charges and at least temporary seizure of my computers
and all my hard drives - not to mention the possibility of being
arrested and taken to the police station. No thank you !!
My neighbour was back at my door this AM asking again (third time
this past week) for access and the WEP password. She was extremely
ticked off when I informed that I was still not interested or
comfortable with giving her access, then said her brother was going
to be coming by to deal with me later.
So, I have taken the router off-line for now and am just staying
wired directly to the cable modem until this situation settles down a
little.
Amber
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