Spotted on Hack In The Box, the reason I don't have ANY wireless access setup as guest, and you shouldn't either. I barely even give people my wireless password, for this reason, among others.
Someone near San Francisco, CA got onto their "friend's" (I use this term loosely) wireless network, and started downloading child pornography. The thought of it makes me sick actually, being that I have 4 kids of my own, and if I caught someone doing that here...well...they probably wouldn't make it to the police. That's all I'm saying.
Anyway, from HITB:
"Case in point: Marin County, California, just north of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Local police in Marin communities like Novato are members of the regional Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force, and as such they participate in the common law enforcement practice of monitoring peer-to-peer file-sharing networks for possible child pornography files. In September 2013, Novato detective Amy Yardley was looking for such files being traded from Marin County IP addresses, and she scored a hit on the Ares network with a suspicious file downloaded by a Sausalito Internet subscriber."
Scary, no? Good thing that there's people out there watching for this kind of thing though. I guess the biggest problem is knowing who your "friends" really are.
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