online security
You don't have to be up to things nefarious to be concerned about privacy online. Merely attempting to do your banking via an open wifi hotspot or send/receive personal email on your phone or laptop a...
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fj12ryder wrote:
This all pretty funny since the government no longer sends paper checks as opposed to electronic banking, i.e. direct deposit. Been doing electronic banking and such for many years with no issues. The only problems have been from the places storing the data, not the way it's sent.
Like I said, if it gives you the warm fuzzies have at it. But basically a non-issue. More people lose their stuff clicking on links in email, and trying to get rich from the Nigerian princes.
I suspect that inter-bank and other inter-agency transactions are handled via fully encrypted and/or Virtual Private Network channels - unlike the systems most of us have in place during any personal Internet-based interactions involving our finances and other private information. Of course we read all the time about the "supposedly expert big guys" getting hacked.
Getting by for many years in the past is no guarantee in the future. As I implied earlier - for important communications travel the Internet at your own level of risk tolerance.
