Are 'songs' electric?

[cyrano]

This is a shout out to all my clever tek-enabled friends.
I have, in the vulgar parlance, a metric ass-load of music on my hard drive. My hard drive is connected to the intarwebs most of the time through DSL. (I think it's DSL. It might be a cable modem. The more I think about it, the more I think it is. If it's relevant I can find out.)
Is there a way I can, remotely, access my hard drive?
Is this something I want to do, given the security risks inherent in such a plan?

Comments

[tersa.livejournal.com]

You are on cable modem, and I don't believe you can access your hard drive at home because it doesn't have a routable IP address from the Internet (since we're technically running a private network behind a firewall--the only Internet routable IP address we have is the IP address dynamically assigned by Comcast to our firewall router).

However, I may be wrong in interpreting this, so other people who are more tech-savvy than I may feel free to correct me. :)

[lil-m-moses.livejournal.com]

Oh, yeah, I totally failed to consider that aspect of it. I only have half a clue anyway, and the empty half is showing. =}