VERY IMPORTANT

Just because someone can break down your door with a battering ram doesn't mean it should be left unlocked.

The tinfoil hat is your best option.

Re: Public Wi-Fi. It's a simple matter for a bad actor to spoof a legit hotspot/access point and lure you in. More sophisticated crooks (and cops and feds) with the right tools can even access your devices without you even knowing about it.

The only 100% secure option is to power down and get off the grid. Barring that, use your common sense and never use public Wi-Fi for anything you don't want the whole world to know - shopping, private communications, etc.

avoiding public wi-fi can be tough. at the very least, tunnel your traffic through a VPN if you're using public wi-fi. I personally use: https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/

I'm not clicking that

I've not read much of this thread, but I accepted Stan's LinkedIn invitation. I hope I'm not homeless in six months.

avoiding public wi-fi can be tough.

Not really. Safer to just not use it.

I only use my secure Wi-Fi router at home, and Bluetooth at home and in my car. I got into that habit in part because I once worked for a company that designs, builds and sells hardware, software and firmware that exploits such signals and networks of interest. I'm familiar with their capabilities, how they're used and by whom. That said, it's no stretch to expect that if the "good guys" can penetrate and spoof signals and networks to target pedophiles and terrorists, "bad guys" can exploit vulnerabilities to target you.

I started this thread because of the email I received. A couple of days ago I received another. Again, I do not and will not trust an email like that. I am sure most of you know that many computers were infected buy trusting an email indicating that the Adobe flash player on your computer is out of date. The email looked exactly like a real Adobe contact but it was not. I have seen that many times and it is still floating around. Some people have been infected by what looked like a valid Apple Computer request but it was not (I own Apple products). Windows users has had the same problems. Once again, I am not a member of Linked in and the last time I wrote an email to Above The Tie was about a year and a half ago. If you click on it and there is no infection fine. However, I am not having anything to do with it.

Once again today I received another email from whom ever is asking if I would click on the button that asks "CONFIRM IF YOU KNOW STAN). This is the third email I have received from whom ever. You would think that if Linked in sent 3 and received no response it would end??????????????????????????

I usually get reminders from LinkedIn if someone sent me an invitation, but usually only once, maybe a couple of weeks after the first invitation.

Once again today I received another email from whom ever is asking if I would click on the button that asks "CONFIRM IF YOU KNOW STAN). This is the third email I have received from whom ever. You would think that if Linked in sent 3 and received no response it would end??????????????????????????

Mark it Spam and your mail provider will stop all incoming mail from that server...or most of it anyhow...


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Once again today I received another email from whom ever is asking if I would click on the button that asks "CONFIRM IF YOU KNOW STAN).  This is the third email I have received from whom ever.  You would think that if Linked in sent 3 and received no response it would end??????????????????????????

Mark it Spam and your mail provider will stop all incoming mail from that server...or most of it anyhow...


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Already did.