Re: Public Access WIFI Security

From: teh Mephisto (dont.worry_at_bout.it)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:06:54 GMT

Jeff Liebermann wrote:
> Most sane users do not poll for email with pop3. They use a VPN
> tunnel provided by their ISP, a VPN tunnel provided by the hot spot
> service company (i.e. Boingo), TLS (transport layer security), or web
> mail using SSL encryption.

I think you give people too much credit. From what I have seen, most
people see "Wireless hotspot here" and go woopee i can get my email and
surf the web. I will guarentee you that you can go into any starbucks,
ask how many people know what VPN or SSL are and probably about 1/4 of
them would be able to tell you, if that. Then they probably don't even
realize that everyone can see what they are doing on a wireless network. 

-- 
Meph

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