Quote:If you encrypt your hard drive, then that's a good thing.

 

If you think that "the days of people running unsecured wifi are over" then you are seriously mislead.  In my own neighborhood I'm able to gain access to the internet from several "secured" wifi connections if I chose to do so.

 

If you think that your modem or wireless access point sends data encrypted, you are sadly mistaken.  If you think that the default password on your modem and/or wireless access point protects you, you are sadly mistaken.

 

Just because you might encrypt your hard drive, it doesn't mean that if you send a file via email or otherwise that said file is encrypted.  It's not unless you take steps to actually encrypt it and give the recipient the means to decrypt it.

 

Let me guess... you are either a Windows user that has some kind of "anti-virus" software running on your machine, or you are a mac user.

 

Here you go again making off the wall statements without backing it up with further information.  So let me ask you this question.  If anything you say is true WHAT IS THE POINT OF WIFI SECURITY EVEN EXISTING.  Is the whole world mad?  

 

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, the statement that wifi transmissions on secure networks is not encrypted is ridiculous.  Sure there are elaborite attacks on Wi-fi networks but most of the time it seems to involve cracking the wifi password.  Why would anyone try to crack a password if the data isn't encrypted in the first place??  Please elaborate on this.

 

After that, most people have wired internet connection, and all the traffic is pretty much identical security wise at that point (wireless network or not).  

 

OK, I don't know, maybe you know something we don't know.  But of course can't disclose that information.  

 

by the way, I run windows/linux with no anti-virus (for my personal computers).  I do encrypt certain data, but not my whole harddrive.  
 
 

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