nothing to hide...?

[Mortblanc]

I have the sneaky feeling that if you had a laptop that had never been "on line", you could walk past a wireless "hot spot" and they could access anything in the computer remotely without you even turning it on!

I had my computer hacked once while it was turned off and not logged into the internet. It came on independently and the hacker started searching my files. I walked into the house and found my computer history scrolling down the screen and being downloaded remotely. I had no control over the computer and the only way I stopped it was to unplug the tower.