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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Eric Pinkerton wrote:<br><br></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span>>It's considered to be neighbourly to open your WiFi and it some what protects you against government accusations of  piracy as who was using the WiFi in open WiFi is hard to pin down.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>This is known as the cheerleader defence, and if you have to depend upon it when some 'unneighbourly' neighbour uses your naivety to upload child pornography your mileage may vary!</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'><a href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/wireless_security_cheerleader_defence/">http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/06/wireless_security_cheerleader_defence/</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>></span> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:blue'>;-)</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Whilst this is not entirely the same, this poor shmuck thought that running a public Tor exit node was the neighbourly thing to do:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/">http://calumog.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/why-you-need-balls-of-steel-to-operate-a-tor-exit-node/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>