| Okay... someone uses my network to do unspecified bad things. Maybe they send spam, or feed their kiddie porn habit, who knows.
Assuming that they're doing bad stuff, who's gonna investigate this? Do your local / state cops have the expertise, the time, the inclination to investigate? Will your local or state prosecutor even bother with this one? I know that here in Michigan the answer is that no one will investigate, and no one will prosecute.
In fact, credit card fraud is very rarely prosecuted here either, since the banks don't find it profitable to send out people to assist in prosecution. Bin Laden could be living off of tens of thousands of credit card scams right now for all we know.
A quick primer for businesses... make Wireless nodes available, but only hooking into your DMZ. Let your users gain access to email and files via web access (ie, NetStorage) as they would if they were on the road. That way the only thing a hacker would be able to do is to sync his/her email and do some web browsing, and you can leverage the power of your firewall to secure your wireless links. |
