ancona
Praying Mantis
I posted this question on another site, but want to gather a sort of consensus. While I haven't played a video game since Asteroids was a dime a play, my kid has a gizmodooschwackie of some sort and wants to do an internet thing, where other people can play against her. My question is this: If these djiblotties can connect to her game, and her game is connected to what is actually a very, very expensive piece of hardware, hand built to be able to handle the crazy shit I put it through, and connected not only to my server here in the office but NASA, is there a possibility that some scumbag could screw up my system or defeat the firewalls to see "inside" my machine?
This is a huge point of contention at my house right now, because my wife seems to be downright ambivalent about the thing, but I am vehemently against putting 8,400 dollars worth of state of the art home office equipment at risk in any way.
The wife insists we get her her own desk top unit, but it will have to be on my home network, which as previously stated is interconnected to other servers.
I checked with fair rights and use guys at the space center, and they couldn't counsel me either way, except to say they would personally err on the side of caution. Now, I do not want or need a pissed off teenager in the house, because that pisses off the wife, and since my cats already hate me it will make life suck pretty bad. Am I being paranoid or are my concerns real and valid?
This is a huge point of contention at my house right now, because my wife seems to be downright ambivalent about the thing, but I am vehemently against putting 8,400 dollars worth of state of the art home office equipment at risk in any way.
The wife insists we get her her own desk top unit, but it will have to be on my home network, which as previously stated is interconnected to other servers.
I checked with fair rights and use guys at the space center, and they couldn't counsel me either way, except to say they would personally err on the side of caution. Now, I do not want or need a pissed off teenager in the house, because that pisses off the wife, and since my cats already hate me it will make life suck pretty bad. Am I being paranoid or are my concerns real and valid?