How easily we can get hacked

[Gamoray]

Our computers can be hacked through the mains on the grid through surges of electricity. Buying surge protected socket Adapters fixes the problem.

 

[Ghost in the Machine]

Our computers can be hacked through the mains on the grid through surges of electricity. Buying surge protected socket Adapters fixes the problem.

There's also unplugging your computer. And not having internet.

What I'm saying is this isn't even going to stop a script-kiddie because this has nothing to do with hacking, this is just raw electricity that powers a device. The only thing a surge protector protects from is from a surge of electricity that can blow out a system. It's just components that limit a voltage.

Use real protective software like anti-viruses and VPNs. Hackers gain access to a computer through networking in the utilization of your own computer's open ports. These are like tunnels from a PC that transfer data from one client and server to another. Windows and browsers like Chrome by default is always having these securities set to as open as possible on your PC, you need to manually disable them all.

There are also various infiltration methods from jockeying your own wifi if they gain access to it or files containing viruses. For many reasons that I hate wifi it is the least secure form of internet connection because of WANs (Wide Area Networks) and even LANs (Local Area Networks) can have you pick up on your neighbours wifi, that in and of itself is just an all around bad sign of security in these open radio signals where your only protection is a mere password.

If you can help it, just use a cord (wifi can still be on, there are videos online on how to completely disable it), though this still of course doesn't guarantee safety because internet is internet and every time you use it for something you have to connect to a client and server, there's no real going around that.

Either way it is 100% impossible to have full protection from hackers anyways, but you can largely limit the risks.

 

[13th_Wolf]

Watch out everybody, Electric wizards are comin to get ya.

Sounds like Ozzy at the start of a Sabbath song lol.

 

[Specter]

Our computers can be hacked through the mains on the grid through surges of electricity. Buying surge protected socket Adapters fixes the problem.

Just use a virtual machine, or a linux distro that utilizes such software along with Tor preferably or just keep your main working rig offline and connect to the internet with other machines/vms and transfer the files.

 

[The Alchemist7 [SG]]

Our computers can be hacked through the mains on the grid through surges of electricity. Buying surge protected socket Adapters fixes the problem.

Not storing Zevism or personal data on your computer helps as well.

 

[Gearshift]

I looked through my source again and understand now, I'll explain myself.

Basically this https://www.hackread.com/smart-socket-can-be-hacked/ website talks about smart sockets that conenct to the internet and not the mains. Apologies, but DO AVOID these smart appliances as they are built with these things.

Sorry everyone my mistake.

Just remember those are IoT sockets. IoT= Internet of Things. It's basically adding data to everyday objects like a refrigerator like the recent Samsung smart fridge commercial.

These things are gonna be more and more common as time goes on per say on some level. The fact of the matter is it's not so hot for certain manufacturers. For example Dr. Lisa Su CEO of AMD mentioned IoT and AioT(Artificial-Intelligence of things) sounds sexy but it's not AMDs prerogative. So AMD decided to focus squarely on their own manufacturer of CPU, GPU, and coming soon FPGAs due to the Xilinix deal.

The sheer fact is many of these new things seem sexy and interesting but are laden with openness and hackability both malicious hacking and positive hacking. The openness is not a bad thing but it's based on freedom of openness much like the internet and lacking security. Or if it has security can be bypassed as the microcontroller is not as advanced as a high-end hacking computer.

BTW improved sockets with USB ports are not susceptible as the USB port is only used for power-delivery and in fact can probably be superior to computer USB ports for powering a device as the USB port in this case is focused squarely on power. USB ports with power sockets are simple electrical feeders not data transmitters. It's when a microprocessor or AI processor is used that it become the issue as in your aforementioned example member: Gamoray.

 

[Gamoray]

Our computers can be hacked through the mains on the grid through surges of electricity. Buying surge protected socket Adapters fixes the problem.

Just use a virtual machine, or a linux distro that utilizes such software along with Tor preferably or just keep your main working rig offline and connect to the internet with other machines/vms and transfer the files.

I do like to get a bit of gaming every now and then, but that's fine I'll prioritise the setup then figure out how I can game with the system.

In case anyone might mention, I don't play online games I know the risks.