Michaelwagner Wrote: > It depends what you want to secure. > > If you just don't want to have someone masquerade as you, you're > right. > > If you want to prevent people from reading your email as your stream it > wirelessly to your laptop in the bedroom, what you have described > accomplishes nothing. Anyone in the neighbourhood can read your email.
Seeing as 99% of email server access is unencrypted POP3 over the public internet, I don't see the issue. Sure, if you're smart enough to use SSL or SSH to access your mail then you'd care, but you probably would just use the tunnel all the way to the final endpoint, again making the security of the wireless link irrelevant. The only argument I see for wireless security at all is (a) to prevent people piggybacking your internet connection and (b) to protect local LAN traffic. Only (a) applies to most people (home users). I'm not advocating switching security off - far from it, just suggesting that having an uncrackable fort-knox style wireless network is not so useful when you then pump the packets straight out into the open internet. -- radish ------------------------------------------------------------------------ radish's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=77 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=24049 _______________________________________________ audiophiles mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/audiophiles
