Juha Saarinen (PC World regular) talks file sharing and insecure
routers.
Is your router wide open to attack? If you haven't locked it down you could end up acting as an unwilling participant in illegal file sharing or perhaps something even more sinister.
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| Linksys wireless router WRT54G |
It appears that this issue with unsecured routers was discovered quite by accident. Although the guy who found this backdoor hasn't done anything malicious, I'm sure that others will. Have a read of what Juha says about this rather worrying weakness in a communications device that many of us now rely on . . . .
Juha Saarinen on file sharing (NZ Herald)
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