XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: robin_listas@es.invalid   
      
   On 2025-11-29 01:07, Chris wrote:   
   > Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >> On 2025-11-28 09:16, Chris wrote:   
   >>> Carlos E.R.  wrote:   
   >>>> On 2025-11-27 18:13, Chris wrote:   
   >>>>> You're including your neighbour in your computer network.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Rather you are including your computer into your neighbour network.   
   >>>   
   >>> Fair. The risk is similar however.   
   >>   
   >> Yes, but it is only your computer that is involved, not all your   
   >> machines.   
   >   
   > If the computer is on the LAN - micky mentioned an ethernet connection -   
   > then everything is exposed.   
   >   
      
   Your computer is not on the LAN. The network hardware has connected to   
   your neighbour, not to your LAN.   
      
   Unless you have two network interfaces, like one WiFi and one cable. But   
   in that case *you* have to configure routing for incoming network on the   
   WiFi to go into the cable, intentionally (and the reverse). Windows   
   doesn't do this by default. OR, the bad guy at the other side of the   
   WiFi has to hack into your computer first, which is different matter   
   from reading the network packets.   
      
   >> And all of your neighbour machines could be affected.   
   >>   
   >> Depends who is the bad guy. Maybe no one is a bad guy. Oh, unless some   
   >> machine involved has some type of malware.   
   >   
   > Most likely there is no bad guy.   
      
   Good :-)   
      
   >   
   >> That's one reason why all my computers have a firewall.   
      
      
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   Cheers, Carlos.   
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