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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.
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Mr. Man-wai Chang 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.

You know what's really strange... unfathomably odd perhaps even????

There must be some reason, unbeknownst to me perhaps, why almost every
wireless device ever made has that always unused on/off switch.

Come to think of it, so does every bluetooth device. And every phone.
And every computer too! What's going on here. Why is there even a switch?

Why do they add such strange switches if we never need to turn it off?
<https://thingsyoudidntknow.com/nsa-says-this-is-how-often-you-should-turn-off-your-phone/>

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Mr. Man-wai Chang wrote:

Most wirelss security is based on just a password, which is vulnerable
to dictionary hack. Turning OFF your wireles devices can at least make
it harder for the hack. You should also be careful with hackers
injecting fake digital footprints via your wireless devices while you
are sleeping or having a walk away from home.

Most people have no clue of what I am imparting to the team below, IMHO...
*WPA2 has a long-standing design flaw in how it derives its keys*

It is not just the password. The SSID is part of the WPA2 key derivation process in addition to the password. Anyone who doesn't know this, will be under a false sense of security because they can't protect against it then.

WPA2-PSK derives its key material from two things. '
1. The password is the input to the key stretching function, and
2. the SSID is the salt.

Both are combined to produce the Pairwise Master Key.

Because the SSID is often common or guessable, combined with dictionary passwords, attackers can build large precomputed tables for those SSIDs.

This does not break WPA2 by itself, but it makes weak or pattern-based passwords combined with common SSID names vastly easier to attack.

The design of WPA2-PSK is the issue people need to be aware of.

To be clear, these online tables to not break WPA2 by itself, but
it means that any common SSID combined with a dictionary password is far
easier to attack than most people realize. The weakness is in the
design of WPA2, not in the access point or the client device.

There is a reason all my SSIDs are "unique" in as far as I can make them.
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