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Re: Even you can be hacked

  • From: Jeff Kell
  • Date: Thu Jun 10 20:35:01 2004 
james edwards wrote:


Sean Donelan wrote:

If you leave your lights on, the electric company will send you a bill.

If the neighbor taps into your power lines after the meter...?

Not a reasonable argument. It is expected that unpatched hosts will
get infected and it has been well reported on how users should
protect themselves. A neighbor tapping another power is not something
to occurs often. It is not reasonable
to expect this to happen. It's not even a reasonable argumnet.

Suppose your neighbor is running wide open wireless...

Jeff