What's the real scope of hardware openness?

[Giles Jones]

On 8 Aug 2007, at 00:38, Ian Stirling wrote:

> You don't care if it's hard to prove it was you, to some extent.
>
> You care about the consequences to you due to not being able to  
> instantly disprove it's not you to someone in a uniform that may  
> have kicked in your door at 5AM.

Well the crime will be traced to an IP address, if you are the only  
person living at that residence you'll have a struggle on your hands  
to prove it wasn't you.