Shoutbox

Security is one thing, but being paranoid won't help anything.

To continue the house analogy......it's like locking the door, having a burglar alarm, etc......all they are are deterants....something to slow people down or put them off the idea.

If they want whatever it is, they'll get it anyway, somehow.  But I would imagine that for the "casual" hacker, seeing any kind of security will put them off and get them to move onto something else.  And I doubt that a more "advanced" hacker would be targeting a personal environment anyway......there's far easier ways of getting someone's credit card details (as realistically that's what any hacker is going to be after)