Well I live in a country where you need to be proven guilty, not the other way round. Dunno if that applies to Russia. My harddrive is fullcrypted with AES-256 and the internet access shared over several users. Theres no way to prove who did what. Not even if they taped the internet provider. But thats offtopic anyway here and is done so for other reasons (hehe no I am no terrorist lol). Here the discussion is how to reasonably use such a remote share, to which I wanted to contribute as I am one of these restless souls not always staying at the same place.
Either way, most courts or judges would need an external specialist to tell em what VNC means or how to even spell it. LOL* Most people are no network experts. And you dont have to lecture me over WEP. I dont use it any more, but as long as there is no law to actually use WPA I may even choose to use no encryption at all. An internet connection is still no weapon that one has to lock away. At least not here. Theres anonymous cybercafees here! Really!
Just like a telephone. I only have to pay the connection fees but there we have flatrates fortunately. If someone uses my phone to call 911 and talk crap there then this may be inconvenient for me to answer the questions – but you have not comitted a crime and unless someone can prove you made the call you wont be prosecuted.
Besides if you set a password and DONT give it willingly to anyone then whoever manages to access your data is committing a rather serious crime in the USA, I understand. That also sort of indicates that you cant really be held liable for such a criminal act then. And if the IFPI scans for port 3689 (unlikely DAAP is NO filesharing utility) then they get a password prompt and have to break laws to get further – if they manage to break in. Unlikely they would do that and admit it later in a court?
But well, as stated before I dont care overly much about such legal rubble, as long as things work neatly. I am pragmatic to the bone.
I of course want some security for such a share but am not overly frightened otherwise.
Hence my request to look a bit into security features for this server and my post of how to easiest run a remote share for ones own use.
And yes I am listening to my own password protected share right now. This second. Try to break in and post what security flaws you found if you like…