Uhm, well even if you don't have any sensetive material, there are a couple of scenarios that your computer would be interresting anyway. 1. Denial of Service bot 2. Spam bot, 3. Virus originator. 4. Nasty enough identity theft even if it is your email, and 5. I've heard of a couple of cases where unprotected computers have become bases for illegal activities through trojanes, the hacker surfing and trading kiddie porn or downloading copyrighted material.

The excuse, my computer/account doesn't contain any sensetive or interresting material, but if you ask me an unprotected computer/account is interesting for an entry point to a network or as base/bot. So I consider the excuse rather lame.



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