The Wifi "hacking" thing, only if the Wifi is not password protected right? (WPA etc..)
If protected, it will not be as easy and casual hacker shd not able to to access rite? Even if you have WiFi connection, if the user doesn't share the folders, how are you going to gain access to the files?
I still remember how back when WiFi first started becoming the norm in Singapore and HDB homes, a WiFi notebook installed with a sniffing s/w, you could connect to many unsecured or semi secured access point devices around the neighborhood and peep into those computers. That's because back then WiFi device right out of the box has their security protocol disabled and security protocols were still in their infancy and weak points were easily circumvented.
BTW, hiding your SSID, limit your router's IP address pool or filtering your MAC addresses are not going to help much against good hacking tools too.
If you own access point,router or any other WiFi devices still using encryption like WEP (
Wired Equivalent Privacy) ...it's very YESTERDAY'S dinosaur and you should be wondering right now how many people have seen your stuff all these time without you knowing. WEP can be cracked in minutes with available cracking WiFi s/w out there.
WPA (
Wi-Fi Protected Access) is next in line but that too has security protocol issues thus was superseded by WPA2 which has been around for the last 10 years or so. Just to give you a brief chronological history of WiFi security progression.
;p.
Given the choice of WPA or WPA2, choose the latter EVERYTIME. If upgrading to a new WiFi hardware ensure it uses WPA2 encryption for sure. In both those modes, unless you are in a corporate level network, you will be using what's called the home mode WPA2 (PSK -
Pre-Shared Key).
Plus you should always beef it up
ALONGSIDE a very strong password set.
Bimbos who like to take nude selfies take note. Hackers can alwasy steal data packets from your computer/devices. What encryption does is it scramble the data so that a hacker sees nothing to make sense of what they capture from you. Without that key (password) they will not be able to put data back in the right way to see it.
Preferably something like 13 characters of mixed case and symbols would be best. Never use words found in dictionary and names (family,friends or pets). A brute force password hacking program will break thru that overtime. A strong password would be like "S&sUv#86+?Ryz". Yes rather hard to remember such a password but also hard to crack too. No? How private and priceless are your data or nude photos again? Try to hide the code on yourself in some smart way that only you know how to decipher it or in parts where only you can to put it back together. That's how this old man does it since my memory is not that good heheh. I hid it in my phone, bags, wallet and in a number of plain sight at home but you would not know it.
Beyond that.... so long as a human wrote the security code, another human with the right motivation, skill and powerful hardware will always be able to break the code. Sooner or later. That is how safe my data is. So I take the best route to secure them and also keep ahead on the latest security news once in a while.
The sexual urge to see your favorite celebrity naked can be a very strong motivation to some 'pervy' folks. Turning a simple semi savvy net surfer into someone with so-so hacking skills thru the net and buying s/w online. heh. That person can even be someone who you know or stalking you. Welcome to the modern world of peeping toms. So be careful of what you store on your network or share. If the data is important to you, then keep it DISCONNECTED from a network device with no cable or WiFi enabled when it does not need to be. :devil:. Big companies ( Apple, Google or Microsfot etc) can build the strongest iCloud or data base server in the world for your data's safekeeping but at the end of the day, the end user like you and me are and always will be the weakest link. Simple as that.
Ok that is about as layman as I can put it as another layman who just learn and dabble in such stuff for fun.
PS. Shared folders or not, there are still possible ways to get access to them. Just take a surf on Google see for yourself heheh. I am not here to teach or take responsibility for anyone doing bad sh*t with the information. heheh
