XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.microsoft.windows   
   From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 1/27/2026 6:50 AM, Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:   
   > On 1/27/2026 1:48 PM, Paul wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Man-wai is worried about his supply of microwave popcorn, getting   
   >> popped when he isn't looking :-)   
   >>   
   >> The last report I saw on bioactivity of radio waves, was around   
   >> 300MHz. There seems to be a correlation between smartphone usage   
   >> (held against the ear) and glial tumors in the head.   
   >   
   > And don't forget about data security! Leaving your wireless devices powered   
   on, online and unattended is not wise.   
      
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access   
      
      [61]   Vanhoef, Mathy; Ronen, Eyal. "Dragonblood - Analysing WPA3's   
   Dragonfly Handshake".   
       https://wpa3.mathyvanhoef.com/   April 2019   
      
   The security then, would depend on when you bought your WPA3-equipped device.   
      
   Bluetooth was also a swiss cheese at one time, full of holes,   
   but they added some sort of encryption. It may not be as   
   bad now, as it was a while ago.   
      
   I think generally, our electronics are only as   
   good as the effort put in by the manufacturer,   
   and ... that's a problem. Finding holes in a standard   
   is one thing, having back doors in equipment is quite   
   another.   
      
   Someone was complaining about his router and the weird   
   firmware it had. Well, the firmware prompt said "evaluation   
   copy, not for sale". And the firmware had come with the   
   router chipset, and the small router box manufacturer   
   had not made any changes to the firmware. I was able to log   
   into his router from the WAN side :-) Pretty funny. And   
   that to me is as much of a concern, as the Wifi in-flight   
   issues. Imagine if some twit puts an Evaluation Firmware   
   into a box, one that does not have the WPA3 mitigations in it.   
   The customer might not know that the box is a Swiss Cheese   
   and full of holes.   
      
       Paul   
      
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