Re: OT: Zone Alarm

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Jordan,
≪Just because it was attached, I immediately saw about 8 nearby
routers...≫
Welcome to the world of war driving. There are people who have nothing
better to do than drive around neighborhoods with wireless sniffer
software discovering open WLANs, decrypting their passwords, and then
publishing the details (including GPS coordinates) on the web. Even AES
encryption can be cracked, given sufficient time and CPU power.
Whenever any member of the war driving forum happens to be in your
neighborhood, all he has to do is log on to your WLAN, using the details
he downloaded from the hackers' web site, and then he can use your WLAN
connection to do whatever he wants. For example, download kiddie porn or
'how to make an a-bomb with household chemicals'. Homeland security
agents will be knocking on your door, not the hacker's, and the burden
of proof is on you that it wasn't your pc that downloaded the forbidden
stuff. You can explain that after they have carted off all your pc
hardware and CD ROMs for investigation.