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WiFi Has No Pants I always kept my WiFi network at home WEP-free, under the theory that I know the security risks, but don't really care about it. If someone wants to sit out in front of my house in their car using my wireless, well, I'm going to see them. I knew that someday this would change, and I knew exactly how.

First, I saw my neighbor's WiFi network clop online. OK, now it's like, do I really want your camera in my house? Because even if they don't know how to eavesdrop, I do.

But the clincher is this story. As a loyal reader of El Reg, I don't really know how I missed it before. But the point is, when weirdos are using open WiFi networks to download child porn, pants around ankles, no less, it's time to put up some acess controls. I'm all for openness and anonymity. But I have no intention of having my computer confiscated by Customs on suspicion of something actually done by some monster driving slowly around my hoood.

Yes, I'll stlll grant anon access. You don't have to tell me who you really are, but you have to prove your bona fides somehow (before you download pr0n, you prevert).