It really means WPA with a STRONG PASSPHRASE* -- WPA with weak passphrases is vulnerable to attack (even more so than WEP)!
That was careless of you.
Perhaps you should learn a little about the DPA then.
You most certainly *do* need to hold it, for the purpose of evidence that will probably keep *you* out of jail for the offences committed by somebody else using your connection.
The "law" that the jury will believe it was you using the connection unless you can somehow show that it wasn't.
Well then you would be much better off using a router built in the last five years than your obsolete kit anyway.
If you are very, VERY, lucky.
"Beyond reasonable doubt" means just that. It does NOT mean that if it was *possible* it could have been somebody else, then the case will automatically be dismissed.
If the jury believe there is no realistic likelihood that it *was* somebody else, then they are likely to convict.
How could you be any more liable than an ISP whose customer does the same thing?
Certainly but it is not difficult to illustrate that it's actually incredibly easy and quite likely that someone could hop on to an unprotected wireless network and use it without obvious detection by a "typical" home user.
Therefore, in the absence of other incriminating evidence, doubt must exist and can't by definition be "beyond reasonable doubt". Hey, we can all play armchair legal etc but this is the case with wireless. Now on the other hand, any good police force isn't going to just pick up a computer and push for a prosecution just because of PC content but rather aim to secure additional evidence. Evidence such as the owners credit card details being used for pay sites of a type offering such content. Telephone calls with other known offenders.
On the other hand, we are talking about the police force here and Thames Valley police issued a statement saying that they weren't going to spend time on investigations unless they knew who the offender was. They seemsed to have lost the plot of what "investigation" actually means!
Quite which is why the legal system is so muddy and potentially unjust. Just because the jury believe the evidence, doesn't make it the right story!
David.
What? You mean that isn't the usual investigatory technique of police forces everywhere?
I live in hope! :)
As of today, in the UK it becomes an offence to set off fireworks after
11pm, punishable by fine or gaol time. Given that we have fireworks going off pretty much every night from about the beginning of October until after New Year, from 9pm onwards, I just can't wait to phone up the police and ask them go to and sort it out.Might divert them from their speeding persecution fest!?
Then again...
Sorry, I digress, back to wireless.
:)
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