Your Wireless Router Needs to Be Password Protected [VIDEO]

More and more people these days are using other people's internet connection.  However,  unsuspecting people that haven't password protected their wireless router are getting an ugly wake-up call.

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.

That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.

"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."

"No, I didn't," he insisted. "Somebody else could have but I didn't do anything like that."

(via NY case underscores Wi-Fi privacy dangers - Yahoo! News.)

Cases like this are happening everywhere, where an unsuspecting person is getting arrested for something someone else did using his wi-fi connection.

If you don't have a password on your wireless connection you need to get one on there now.

eHow.com has a great step by step instruction process here.

You can find several instructional videos on YouTube.  The following is an example of how you can password protect your wi-fi.