Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
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.
That's probably the worst (at least in the US)

but far more likely is your 16 year old next door neighbour who finds he can get a perfect signal on your wireless network and uses it to download child porn or something like that. These things happen literally every day. I just struggle to understand why you would turn off security when you already had it enabled - unless you have an extremely fast WAN connection it really has no performance impact.
Just trying to make a helpful suggestion