On Sun, 03 Jun 2018 01:08:36 -0400, J. Clarke
wrote:
SNIPP
My guy says the trend will be back to wired, because wireless is getting
too clogged up.
Wired is still faster and more reliable and will be for the foreseeable
future or until they find new frequencies. :-)

He is right. Especially when you find out how easy it is to hack WIFI
to the homes and businesses around you, especially on those that
haven't a clue about security. Years ago I used to connect up and
print out messages on their printers to clue them in.

Wired is faster, but how fast do you NEED? I see no evidence of a
trend to wired for residential use.

As for ease of hacking, this is mostly FUD. Has any data breach
causing economic harm to anyone _ever_ been traced to a wifi hack?

Yes. Using public WIFI - at coffee shop or motel, has compromized
several of my customers' laptops, at least one corporate bank account,
and numerous websites when the owner logged onto his server to manage
his website. (Huge damage to the websites -significant cost involved)

We KNOW it was wifi hacks in at least 3 of the cases because of where
the hacker got in from and where the customer was at the time
(Texas/Mexico , Indonesia, and Thailand)

Most data thieves don't go after Joe Homeowner or Fred's Pizza. They
go after somebody who is likely to have enough in assets accessible by
computer to actually be worth stealing.

That's "data thieves", but malicious "code kiddies"are another
altogether. They derive "street cred" from their hacks, and when they
get credit card information and passwords, hang on!!!!! Thankfully the
banks take the hit instead of the customer.


I have NO IDEA how anyone got my bank card number and password - it is
ONLY used as identification and my home bank branch (only once at the
ATM) and to log into my electronic banking application (which I had
only done TWICE before someone successfully used it in Mexico and
tried to use it 3 more times )
They got $600 out of my account oin the "trial run" then tried for
several thousand (unsuccessfully, thanks to my bank's security
settings) over the next couple of days. Cost the bank -not me - and
necessitated getting a new bank access card.
Not sure WIFI was involved on this one as I only accessed the
application ONCE on wifi - and that was on my secured home wifi - the
card has never been outside of Canada - muchless been used or
referenced outside of Canada - but to have both my card number and my
14 digit very high security password it had to have been "sniffed"
somewhere.