I turn off the wifi on my laptop when I am not using it, to presumably prevent hacking into it when I am not on it. However, I have noticed the CURRENT WEATHER appearing on my home screen, before I enter my password to actually use it! I searched, and a few years ago, people said it wasn't possible, but one commenter said, "The new windows might do it" (or some comment like that). Well, it seems that it HAS to be able to do it if it is showing current weather! So now, I am going to have to turn my laptop completely off to provide the level of security I thought I had! (I guess it won't be long before they can access my laptop even with the power off)
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Turn all apple devices off and back on daily (I do this with most devices I have) to prevent governments/hackers from getting your data, its cuts them off at the knees.
How exactly does this prevent anyone from getting your data ?
Persistent malware that survives reboots does exist but is pretty rare. Often daily phone use can collect nasty bits in your phone's storage and a power cycle reboot will clear it. Refreshing the RAM (memory) is a process to do but very unlikely needed.
Edit: it won't completely stop them from gathering data but at least it makes them work harder for it, whether or not it actually works (they probably have something imbedded deep within all chips undetectable to virtually everyone), at least it can give you some peace of mind
Pretty rare? How so? Any keylogger would be installed until removed. If what you say about rebooting were true, then anti-malware software wouldn't exist. Not to mention rebooting would do nothing for data already collected by invasive software or web applications. The only way to keep your data safe would be to airgap your device and never take it online.
That makes sense. I operate under the assumption that every piece of hardware I have is backdoored in some way. I will quote my cousin when it comes to sensitive comms: do you like to jet ski?
I forget which manufacturer, but for some phones, they actually continue to gather info locally without internet, and then simply transmit that data when back online
Google. People have seen their location info even when they had location, wifi, and BT turned off.