Hardwiring the modum to the Computer?
I have just picked up a modum from the ISP. In the process i also had to have the phone company sent a service person to get the junk running. In the process the tech showed me that the ethernet c...
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RedRocket204 wrote:Because the user's data is not going through WiFi.
...how is the security better when the wireless signal is still active even if the computer is hardwired?
All workable cracks of wireless encryption depend upon first intercepting packets going between an AP and a client. With no client, there's nothing useful to intercept.
If the WiFi is unsecured and completely open so the "attacker" could share the Internet connection, it would still be difficult for them to see the user's traffic, whereas it would be trivial if the user were on WiFi.
