Best secure surfing solution

From: George (lgst036_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/04 

Date: 30 Jan 2004 16:46:55 -0800

Hi,

I would be grateful if someone could give me some advice.
Not wanting my ISP or employer to see confidential emails and surfing,
I have set up a service with companies providing secure web browsing
(Idzap, the cloak, etc). So my web browser is using https using
certificates from the company offering this service.
I have read about possibilities of intercepting the https with "man in
the middle" or maybe other techniques.
How difficult it is for an ISP or my company’s network
administrator to do that. Translated in money, how much would they
need to spend to do that.
Are there any better solutions, maybe a VPN service, Kerberos setup or
anything else possible.
Of course the above assumes that the secure service provider is
trusted on which I would be keen to find any of their commonly known
policies. (maybe suggestions)

Many thanks

George

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