Safe WiFi Hotspot
Looking to be on the road for a few months at a time and need to have access to a safe, secure WiFi to handle financial transactions, campground bookings etc. via the internet using my laptop and sma...
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Campfire Time wrote:westernrvparkowner wrote:
To get the lowdown on personal information security in general, catch the episode of "Adam Ruins Everything" that deals with the issue. It basically explains that you cannot do anything to protect your credit information, your personal information or any other information that would materially make that information more secure. In other words, the barn door has been open for years, and the horses are all long gone.
Horse hockey. That would be like saying since criminals can easily break into any house there's no point in locking the doors. You can't protect or control every aspect of any transactions, even if you never use the Internet. But there is plenty you can do to protect what you can control and reduce your attack surface. So why wouldn't you?
The media just loves to scare people. Tru Tv was good when it was court TV, now it's just the National Enquirer in video format.
Using a modest amount of common sense if all well and good but after that, yes, it's a waste of time and the unintended consequences are likely worse than the risk.
I'd rather a thief not destroy the door frame that will cost $1000 to repair while breaking in to steal a 3yr old laptop that's probably worth $50 on the resale market.
