Wi-Fi Trading

Q: Hi, Is it safe to take my laptop to the coffee shop and trade over their WiFi system?

A: The reality's that every SysAdmin anywhere along the
path between that wi-fi net and the system you're trying to talk
to can run a full data tap on your entire discussion. Doesn't
even have to know what any of the encrypted stuff means. Simple
replication and voila, they're into your account(s). Gotta
remember the underlying Internet a

lways was and still is an
anarchy further complicated by the criminal intents of the
predatory Microsoft monopoly to obtain and maintain control of
everybody else's everything else.
Wi-Fi takes that already anarchistic trash heap, unsuitable
at any encryption level for any business transaction whatever,
and adds to it the simple antenna data tap that JohnT was talking
about. Unless you're functioning at the Scottrade *entry level*
of $500 gross assets, or flat out don't care whether your money
gets stolen (which your inquiry indicateds otherwise), I think
the answer is "fugedaboudit".

I'm sure you have motive for making such an obviously false
statement Michael. Reality is that the Chase and Citi credit
card account files were hacked by that Italian couple who used
the purloined credit card numbers in an online gambling scheme
which was caught only because they transferred the proceeds back
through the regular banking system. Reality is that a mutual
fund in Denver which spews an even harder line than yours about
how "secure" their criminally facilitative publication of
confidential account information on the web "is" did in fact
provide my account number to a felon who used it with their
further criminal facilitation to steal money from my account there.
Reality is that there are a lot of self-styled "businesses" that
want to *make believe* they have "secure" online systems and they
rely on lying cheating and stealing to maintain that pretense.
Reality is that Micey Sorft just announced a whole new set of
"patches" for their intentionally trapdoored and buggy slopperating
system including critical patches for defects that were found and
brought to Micey's attention as much as 216 days ago. And if you
believe that they have actually patched things without creating a
whole new set of criminal access routes, you are way to credulous
to be trading stocks.