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I don't think I'm worth hacking but a hacker would have to hack me to find that out by which time the harm is done.

This is similar reasoning to why you shouldn't leave a bag or jacket on view when you park your car. YOU know there's nothing of value but the oik who's breaking in to your car doesn't until it's too late.

I would recommend using using Shields Up to see if you have ports on computer exposed to the internet. Most of us at home will be conencting via NAT (Network Address Translation) routers. These translate between an external IP address (eg 212.159.4.56) to an internal address. This will be in the range 10.x.x.x or 192.168.x.x or a couple of rather uncommon ones. As a result your PCs are much less exposed to the big bad world. For example they can't be PINGed. Normally a domestic modem/router is configured not to respond to a PING.

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I'm sure that Mark and/or Nick will explain the holes in my argument.