Is your WiFi connection password protected? Well, if not, this video may as well change your mind about its lack thereof.
A heavily-armed police SWAT team broke down the door of a house in Evansville, Indiana, smashed windows and tossed a flashbang stun grenade into a living room.. all because of an unsecured WiFi connection. With a second suspect identified at a different house on the same street, police took a more softly-softly approach. This time not using a SWAT team or grenades, but instead using the tried-and-trusted traditional method of knocking on the door. -NakedSecurity
It's quite an alarming video, isn't it? (Going a bit off topic here) Although personally, I saw the police team's carelessness in terms of conducting such operations, (now going back) and although I'm not exactly sure if online activity in the Philippines is as securely monitored as in the United States, we should still take extra precautions to better our safety, not just online, but as proved in this news report, offline as well.
For the whole predicament that happened to the Evansville public, two points need to be cleared and noted:
1. Secure your WiFi connection
Because we just won't really know what the connection leech is capable of sending and posting over the internet using our WiFi addresses
2. Think before you click, or in this case, before you post terrorist threats online
Because in this day and age of advanced technologies, I wouldn't even try. Not that I, or we, would consider doing so in the first place…