Why do you people have file-sharing enabled on your Macbooks...

[davester]

because my parents taught me that sharing is good.

[cbelt3]

N-OS X-tasy! wrote:
[quote=Seacrest]
[quote=silvarios]
Side note, while silly to have file sharing enabled in a public place, shouldn't file sharing be access protected anyway?

I can see a whole bunch of people's names in my Sidebar.
Not a big deal, I guess, maybe to some people.
If your name is visible in someone else's Sidebar and if access to your drive is not password-protected, it could become a big deal to you.

Bored while sitting at the Honolulu airport a few months ago, I investigated all the computers listed in my Sidebar. Most were password-protected, but one wasn't. This guy had multiple documents related to his business in plain view. Spreadsheets, invoices, upcoming gigs... you name it, it was on display. If I were the type of person to do so, I could have wiped out his business in just a few minutes. Instead, I opened a text document on his desktop and left him a note to say that he REALLY needed to do a better job of securing his computer.
N-OX... you're lucky.
What you did is technically against the law.
It's the electronic equivalent of entering a house through an unlocked front door and leaving a note on the kitchen counter saying "You should lock your doors' !

If you're caught, you ARE guilty of "Entering". Not "Breaking". And electronically you're guilty of illegal entry to a computer system. The same penalty applies if you had hacked the NSA and left a note saying "LULZSEC RUL3Z ! N00b5 !"

Don't Do it again. We don't want to have to visit you in jail.

[edgarbc1]

cbelt3 wrote:
obligatory ackbar image in 3.2.1

:-)

[Seacrest]

davester wrote:
because my parents taught me that sharing is good.

So that was you?

[N-OS X-tasy!]

cbelt3 wrote:
[quote=N-OS X-tasy!]
[quote=Seacrest]
[quote=silvarios]
Side note, while silly to have file sharing enabled in a public place, shouldn't file sharing be access protected anyway?

I can see a whole bunch of people's names in my Sidebar.
Not a big deal, I guess, maybe to some people.
If your name is visible in someone else's Sidebar and if access to your drive is not password-protected, it could become a big deal to you.

Bored while sitting at the Honolulu airport a few months ago, I investigated all the computers listed in my Sidebar. Most were password-protected, but one wasn't. This guy had multiple documents related to his business in plain view. Spreadsheets, invoices, upcoming gigs... you name it, it was on display. If I were the type of person to do so, I could have wiped out his business in just a few minutes. Instead, I opened a text document on his desktop and left him a note to say that he REALLY needed to do a better job of securing his computer.
N-OX... you're lucky.
What you did is technically against the law.
It's the electronic equivalent of entering a house through an unlocked front door and leaving a note on the kitchen counter saying "You should lock your doors' !

If you're caught, you ARE guilty of "Entering". Not "Breaking". And electronically you're guilty of illegal entry to a computer system. The same penalty applies if you had hacked the NSA and left a note saying "LULZSEC RUL3Z ! N00b5 !"
Yup. Good luck finding me.

[DP]

OK, I'll take the hit for being the dumb one... I don't use wi-fi much but where do I find the settings to check? Is it in the computer prefs or the browser. I just checked FF prefs and nowhere do I see anything that says anything like "don't allow file sharing".

[DP]

Found it. When I read the thread title. Sys Prefs>Internet & Wireless>Sharing. No boxes checked. Whew!

[silvarios]

System Preferences->Sharing