Re: Public Access WIFI Security

From: Hairy One Kenobi (abuse_at_[127.0.0.1)
Date: 09/29/05 

Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 10:51:07 GMT

"teh Mephisto" <dont.worry@bout.it> wrote in message
news:iTI_e.11399$ua.515214@twister.southeast.rr.com...
> 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.

Um.

In what way is this different that using any other publicly shared service?

Incidentally, and in case you hadn't noticed, the Internet itself is.. um..
a shared public service. Any privacy you happen to gain from someone else's
routing table is pretty much a side-benefit.

Coming up next.. blutooth it am teh sc4ry!!!1!!!

;o) 

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