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• Auto connect features can cause problems. In my apt. complex there are literally 30 -40 accounts that my routers picks up, many unlocked. I attempt to keep my MacBook Pro from connecting to any of these by disabling the "automatically connect to available networks" by checking the box "ask before joining network". However, this does not always seem to work>?> I fear many are luring those unaware of the hackers who leave their networks unsecure so that they can access the computer users who connect to their networks. How would this play out legally I wonder? If you unknowingly are connected to another persons network and they then use your computer as a host to attempt to hack, for instance, the pentagons network, or use your computer, along with others who have willing joined, to bombard a website causing it to crash - they'd have your IP address, right? Who would be at fault in this instance? There sure seems to be quite a few legal precedents that have yet to be established and quite confusing.

  June 26, 2008

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