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They could also start your piano playing at 3am in the morning :-)

James


Kevin Goroway wrote:
> Steve,
>
> Your observation is true, and yamaha is certainly aware of it.  Let me 
> try to alleviate some of your primary fears though...
>
> While others may try to connect to your piano's access point, it has 
> no access to the rest of the computers on your network, nor to the 
> internet.  Those capabilities of the piano are actually on a different 
> (wired) network (the one that your airport is connected to).
>
> That being said, there are real dangers to having the communication 
> between the remote(s) and the piano be wide open.  Even more so if 
> your piano is running a version of the software before 2.1.  Most of 
> those dangers, however, are to the piano's database, and nothing 
> else.  A truly malicious person with a whole lot of time on their 
> hands could tell your piano to delete everything it has, for 
> example...  That's the worst case scenario as far as I can see.  They 
> could also tell your piano to connected to yamaha's store and purchase 
> a bunch of music for you...however they would need your password and 
> fortunately *THAT* is encrypted (again, assuming version 2.1 or greater).
>
> -Kevin