Originally Posted by
star_world
That's a stunningly dangerous decision - speaking as a professional in the networking / communications industry. There's whole categories of "questionable activity" where the relevant authorities wouldn't even stop to listen to a defense like that (eg: the FBI "believing" that anything "terrorism-related" originated from that connection, to say the least); personally I'd be doing everything I could to keep people from getting to that stage.
Besides, how do you possibly benefit from that setup?
I'm the guy with the stunningly dangerous setup.
You know, I've always run 128 bit WEP on my connection (my Tivo's wireless adapter doesn't support WPA) and decided, I don't really care if someone uses some of my bandwidth. So I turned WEP off, thinking it'd be good karma to share. But after a couple days of feeling insecure, I turned it back on.
I mean, paranoia check. What's the worst that can happen? Someone uses my connection to email al Qaeda or something - but the chance of that happening is infinitesimal. So really, big deal.
And yet, I still turned it on...