Re: Windows 10 and 11 power state habits: shutdown, sleep or hibernate

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