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On 08/26/2011 03:15 PM, pcfranke wrote:
> However, it might be prudent for everyone to remember one thing: on the
> internet, there is no such thing as "secure".
Not exactly true but close.
> Your transmission will be
> handed off at perhaps 30 different routers, any one of which is hackable
> with a few basic skills.
Any router can be snooped by the ISP, this has always been true.
> Add to that the fact that once it gets to that
> first router, it never will go away.
I don't know what you mean about this. Routers do not store any packet data.
> Finally, the servers (sic! plural)
> where your transmissions are stored are equally hackable, as has been
> shown by innumerable breakins.
Quite true. So you have to know your destination provider's security
procedures.
> In short, your transmissions in reality
> are public property,
Not true, even Google got sued over that and lost.
> with the potential for everyone to read them.
I don't know who everyone is, but the average user is clueless as to how
to do this even on an open WiFi hotspot. But yes, on unencrypted
traffic, this is true. So just VPN through the WiFi hotspot and
eliminate the risk.
> Therefore, put nothing on the internet that you do not want everyone to
> read. Even if you lead a very dull life and are convinced that no one
> is interested,
That's good advice. Once posted it is eternal these days. But secured
connections are still safe enough in my opinion. Safer than the
endpoints, and most of these are still safer than reading your credit
card number to to someone in Pakistan when making a telephone call
purchase. At least no one gets access to the data verbally. And there
are plenty of ways to mitigate this too, ShopSafe by BankAmerica is one
way. One-time self-destructing purpose-issued credit card numbers you
create, then use, and they disappear. Nothing left to hack.
>nevertheless it might be wise to avoid using Windows
Now that is advice I support wholeheartedly. (Linux and Unix and Solaris
professional for many decades here, I use Windows only when I am forced
to, which is these days just to update it.) But people won't do it.
> or
> your legal name.
Everyone can decide that for themselves. I use mine.
RIck Kunath
WBCCI #3060
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