As he lay on the floor "with assault weapons trained on him" and federal agents accusing him of being a pedophile and pornographer, a man in Buffalo, N.Y., realized he'd made an awful mistake.
He hadn't password-protected his new router and someone had been using his wireless connection to download child porn.
And, as The Associated Press writes, that man's experience — and similar things that have happened to others — underscores how important it is to password-protect a wireless router.
There is another angle to the story, writes Radley Balko at the Reason blog: Police might want to "see if a suspect's wireless network is secure, and therefore that they have the right guy, before they break into his home and point their guns at his head."
