> On 11/03/2010 11:35 AM, [email protected] wrote:
>
>> None of these solutions reliably give you the capability to
>> visit social media sites from public WiFi.  What block do
>> you refer to?
>>
> I believe she's talking about https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere

Yes, that is the direction advocated by the author of Firesheep.
But note that it only works for a very limited number of sites.
So it's a move in the right direction, but hardly a solution.

>> Oh, wait.  There is another way.  You could VNC back to
>> your home network and visit the social media site indirectly
>> from there.
>
> Why not just use an SSH SOCKS proxy if you are planning on tunneling
> back to a home network?
> VNC seems awfully complicated.
>
> -ajb

Good point.  Of course this suffers from the same weaknesses as
VNC.  It just suffers less.
-- 
Allen Brown  http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
  You're schizophrenic?  Gee, that makes four of us!



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