Re: [SLUG] Wifi security fun with your neighbors.

From: steve szmidt (steve@szmidt.org)
Date: Mon Aug 07 2006 - 11:16:50 EDT


On Monday 07 August 2006 11:01, Chuck Hast wrote:
> On 8/7/06, Levi Bard <taktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktaktak@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Why not just lower the priority for unauthorized requests? Is it
> > really killing you to share your extra bandwidth?
>
> Depends on what your neighbor is doing, if you are using VoIP and he/she
> is pulling down a heavy p0rn video causing your VoIP connection to get
> high delays, then that sharing could be a issue.

Oh, it opens more issues than just being a nice guy. With someone on the
inside of your firewall everything the neighbor does is a potential security
liability.

-- 

Steve Szmidt

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