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Originally Posted by photon
Leaving it unsecured does open your computer up to theoretical hacking from outside.
If a neighbour uses it and puts you over your limit and Shaw cancels your account you have no recourse, or if they do something illegal on your account it could still be a problem. Securing it is trivial, so it's worth doing.
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Just to add onto this. When I set up people's wireless networks I explain to them why it should be secured; and I use the example of child exploitation. Somebody could use your unsecured wireless network to download pictures, and then the police show up with a warrant. Even after they find your computer clean you'll still be known in the neighbourhood as the "sick ."
Or even worse. They find your unsecure network, and set up a file sharing site that uses some of your hard drive space to host the images. Now when the police come to your house they find the computer with the images on it.
As Photon said, securing your network is pretty easy to do, and can prevent so many issues.