03-15-2013, 08:19 AM
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Originally posted by spunky
@unknown julie
"Had not thought of the porn angle. That actually might be legit." actually might be? Tell that to the families that have their world turned inside out (like the link provided by another poster.) It took the FBI 2 YEARS to determine that an innocent family was indeed innocent.
Do you shop online? Every have to key in that 3 # code from the back of your card.
When I warn my friends of identity theft - they just say they don;t have much money so there isn't much to drain from their accounts. They don;t get that these days, criminals are taking over people's lives with their identities. Its not just hacking into a banking account or using a credit card.
They get your info and create whole new identities for themselves ...in your name. I read of one lady who had her identity hacked. The imposter went so far as to take the innocent person to court claiming that the innocent person was actually the imposter. She committed welfare fraud and all kinds of other crimes in this innocent woman's name.
Not gonna beat my head against the wall anymore trying to convince anyone that unsecured wifi is a bad idea..... go ahead and give criminals and law enforcement something to do.
Spunky: while you are correct that unsecured wifi is generally a bad idea, it is not the only layer of protection. You also have a firewall on your computer, antivirus, control of network shares, etc. Online shopping information is sent over https, which uses encryption and is somewhat difficult to crack in order to access user password and login information. The real problem is that generally folks who have unsecured wifi also have open shares on their internal network that can easily be compromised, or lack a firewall or haven't updated their OS and software, which allows a whole suite of cracks to be used to gain access.
The amount of data google could capture from unsecured wifi is pretty small from most people unless they were using email in clear text (I generally use https encrypted webmail). They could definitely capture your posts on punaweb as well as your login information if you happened to be logging in at that time.
Ericlp has some other valid points on the topic.
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Mike
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