Hotels are interesting in what you can find

So at the hotel, I connected to the network. I try to be somewhat careful in how I connect and where I connect. I turn on the firewall on my laptops. I also use a Linksys WRT54GC wireless access point and router to connect multiple computers and to provide a different interface to the network. Maybe it works, maybe it doesn’t if nothing else it lets me hook up multiple computers and be wireless if I want in a wired environment.

However what surprises me is how many people do not even think to protect their stuff on the network. The first surprise was when I started up iTunes and saw other iTunes libraries. I did not know I even had mine setup to browse for other libraries. But what really surprised me was what I was able to see on other machines.

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I did not even know that there were X Rated Podcasts! But I guess I should not be surprised.

So then I figured I would see what else was on the network. I was amazed at how many shared drives I could find…

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Kind of surprising just how easy and open some stuff is. I wonder if people do not know or just don’t care.

Tomorrow’s comment will probably be about some of the stuff that has had me confused on the Mac… more fun coming.