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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pnichols wrote:LittleBill wrote:pnichols wrote:
Hackers can get at this stuff anytime, and in case of a catastrophic Internet failure ... there goes access to your photos!
your photo's will be the least of your concerns if the internet fails, pretty much will go dark ages.
Not quite so far back in dark times for those of us who keep local soft and hard copies of everything business related, who maintain local hard drive stored photos, who get the bulk of their intertainment via satellites instead of the Internet, who have multiple personal residence generators with plenty of stored fuel, and who keep their RVs stored at home with all tanks full that should be full and all tanks empty that should be empty.
It's probably best to trust that which you have no choice but to trust (i.e. the joists holding up your floors), but not to trust that which you have a choice in whether or not to trust (i.e. the Internet). ;)
you think your entertainment is going to work if the "internet" breaks? what do you think feeds the satellite signals? its all run on or near or in the same bundle as the internet.
if we lose enough to "break" the internet, pretty much everything stops, banks close, credit cards don't work, hell im not even sure if power is going to work at this point. so eventually you will need something that depends on it. this coming from a prepper,
if the internet breaks, just hope you have enough bullets to stop everyone from trying to take your stuff.
man we are off topic.
