We recently posted a story asking if wi fi is dangerous. Now scientists are reassuring us that there is no link between wi-fi use and damage to your health.
The BBC reports that the scare first occurred when their TV show Panorama found that “radiation levels from wi-fi in one school was up to three times the level of mobile phone mast radiation.” However, these readings were still 600 times below the government’s safety limits.
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Homes, coffee shops and even entire towns are now being wired for internet access, but no one is investigating the possible health implications of this.
The massive power of the cellphone industry has prevented any serious research into their possible dangers in the US, but Britain has issued a number of warnings about them, mostly because of the work of the British Health Protection Agency headed by Sir William Stewart. This authoritative agency has issued warnings about cellphones, most notably that they can be dangerous to children and should be used by them only sparingly.
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A federal judge recently ruled that it is illegal for the government to bug people’s phones in the cause of Homeland Security. But what about all that email you send? LiveScience.com reports that your keyboard can easily be bugged so that someone can “read” your passwords and other sensitive data.
Computer expert Matthew Blaze says that this bugging device, which is far more powerful than a common Trojan orrootkit, is almost impossible to detect because it works by adding nearly imperceptible processing delays after a keystroke. According to LiveScience.com, these bugs have not actually been put into use yet, but since Livescience is a spin off of the NASA web site space.com, this may not be entirely accurate.
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Seniors who use a computer appear to be less depressed and have less chance of developing Alzheimer’s.
This research was by done by Village Care of New York, a long-term care provider in Manhattan?s Greenwich Village. In 1998, researcher Kathleen Triche decided to look into the impact of the growing use of computers by seniors on the hypothesis that those using computers would report fewer depressive symptoms than non-users. She says, “Given the social and informational nature of older adults’ computer practices?email, chat rooms and health information gathering, for example, it seemed likely that this would be beneficial to an individual’s overall mental health.”
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