Cathy Classics by Cathy Guisewite for January 29, 2010

Hooray!

Way to go Cathy!!

Good try, Cathy, but I’m not sure you want him in this state.

Umm, Cathy… if you’re trying to disable his smart CELL PHONE, unplugging the in-home Wi-Fi ain’t gonna do it.

Meanwhile, he’s using his iPhone to disable your mall charge cards…

How does the thing work in public if it’s dependent on a home router?

Irving is dependent on wifEY. She’s the one paying all the bills. It isn’t any of his business what she does with her mall cards.

And why is she wearing that sausage casing? How did the saleswoman/waitress talk her into that one?

The saleswoman can talk her into anything. But if she thinks she looks sexy in that she better think again.

@mrslukeskywalker: most wireless devices have the ability to tap automatically into any public (non-secure) WiFi network they can detect, including many cell phone networks. Of course only an utter IDIOT would dare use those for truly sensitive things like paying bills or sending information like social security numbers, credit card numbers, or checking account PINs–at least without some sort of encryption program, and even then it’s not worth the risk IMO (and I’m a systems admin, so I know a lot of the tricks hackers use to get at such; you can never be too paranoid about Internet/wireless security).

As much as I feel for Irving (at least until I’ve read my daily comics) I have to applaud Cathy’s ingenuity. Sometimes the best solutions are also the simplest.

I like this new storyline/running gag a lot–much funnier than the (admittedly funny) shopping and weight gain gags.