wifi at home and hacking?
Have been having issues with the networked PCs in our house recently. Started to get a message on one that said someone has been downloading The Simpsons and the latest (not released yet) Spongebob m...
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rwbradley wrote:
I am not sure if this applies, but normally Bittorrent clients are always downloading. Most people do not know that when you close the client it just hides it, but it continues to download/upload in the background. So if the Nephew was downloading these shows at home and went to Starbucks and connected to their WIFI, it would pickup where it left off and continue downloading. If he came over to visit you and you connected him to your WIFI, well his computer would still be downloading.
Very good point.
The 'always downloading' is a setting, and can be changed, but he may have used a version where the default is 'always downloading' and just never changed it.
@myredracer, I find it incredibly creepy that your phone company is monitoring the name of every file you view on your computer.
