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Time Warner, wi-fi, and someone else's bill

Time Warner is going to bill you based on how much data you use. But is it really you using the data? Do you have a wifi network? Is it secure? It better be, if Time Warner provides your service. This came to mind because right now I am using an open wifi network to blog this. A couple of days ago I pulled down my monthly allotment of eMusic tunes over the same network- the download total was 662MB. Might this affect someone's bill? What if you were renting movies from Bittorrent and iTunes? Now we are talking serious usage.

Wifi network owners need to watch out. There are currently 7 people with DHCP addresses on this particular network. That's quite a few- I'm guessing only one is paying. Change your router password, too, or a griefer will get you.

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