[ILUG] IOL Broadband handing over information.

[Liam Bedford]

jason corcoran wrote:

>On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 09:51:20AM +0100, Conor Wynne wrote:
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>>Of course you didn't, it was obviously someone sitting in a car near your
>>house, and hacked into your wireless lan to download movies.
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>>Regards
>>Conor.
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>Just as a mater of interest, my wife and I are expecting twins. I currently havea *hardwired* han and so that the wife can work from home and look after the kids for a while I was going to put a wireless network in ( I haven't even started looking at the wireless end of it :)
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>If someone was to get on to your network and send a malicious mail or down load a movie what would you legal standpoint be? 
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People in the UK have used a defence of "a virus as what done it, sir", 
and I think they were successful.
Depends on how big your cajones are, or whether you really didn't do it. 
If you didn't, you should be able
to get some DHCP logs. Though they might suggest that leaving the 
wireless network open was
contributory negligence or something. Ask a lawyer I guess.

IANAL.

L.