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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packnrat wrote:
and to think all the corps are pushing people to store everything in the "cloud".
can you say unsecured. easy for a crook to find and take.
the mega places are hacked in someway almost every day. only true secured, is on your computer when it turned off.
Better still - or instead of - make sure that your router is turned off when not needing Internet access, and of course including during the night when sleeping.
My WRT router has the built-in capability to have it running during a schedule that I can set through the router's UI. Using this feature to turn off the router, including when sleeping, reduces the hours that hackers have access to it ... especially those on the other side of the world.
BTW, a lot of folks must be turning off their routers during the day when they're at work. I'm retired so I can check WiFi signals around my home using a WiFi signal monitoring app on my computer. There's many WiFi signals from my neighbors showing in the evenings and mornings and all day on weekends, but during the week most of those signals are gone in the middle of the day.
FWIW, "the cloud" is merely remote servers storing whatever information you put on them. The DW and myself never use "the cloud" or any other "service" for storing our personal stuff - including photos. Hackers can get at this stuff anytime, and in case of a catastrophic Internet failure ... there goes access to your photos!
