Technically Legal

Somehow this story slipped past us last week. A Federal District Court in Oregon held that a man had no reasonable expectation of privacy in files that was easily viewable over his unsecured wireless network.M

The man had an unsecured network which a neighbor was using. The man was allegedly using Limewire to download child pornography, and had Limewire and iTunes set-up to automatically share the downloaded files through iTunes’ built in sharing.

The neighbor was browsing the man’s shared files and stumbled across the child porn.

So, count this as reasons:
(1) Not to have an unsecured network
(2) Not to use Limewire, which is full of malware, and
(3) To check your sharing settings on all your apps that have a default.

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