[ale] heads up - warning - you could be sharing comcast wifi without knowing it

[Derek Atkins]

Pete Hardie <pete.hardie at gmail.com> writes:

> So if someone uses this free wifi access to hack one of my machines, is
> Comcast liable?

How would they do that?  Do you not have a firewall for your machines?
The way I understand this is that the "public wifi" portion would be on
a different network than your "personal" connection, so anyone on the
public side would have the same access to your network as someone
anywhere else on the Internet.

-derek

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