RE: [LUG] hotspot mania & 'evil twin ' scam

[byaruhj]

Eric is on the list may be he should shed some light on it for all J or is it a company secret.   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ronny Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:50 PM To: Noah Sematimba; Linux Users Group Uganda Subject: Re: [LUG] hotspot mania & 'evil twin ' scam   Well you have covered just part of the security ,your connection to the office .But forgotten that you are using a rogue device to access your office.By the way the bad guy might be interested with what you have on your machine than what you are accessing!Well there will be a VPN to the office but not to the neighbours rite  ;-) .Am not good at VPN's but that what I think correct me if wrong Ronny Noah Sematimba wrote: Well no one in his right mind should be relying on his ISP to provide him with security. Setup some sort of VPN to your office or tunnel over ssh or whatever means.   All UTL is doing is providing you with the road, not also fitting the security features in whetever car you're going to use on their road.   Noah. On Tuesday 14 June 2005 15:51, Robert Lukwago Mukasa wrote:   With secure I suppose they mean what encryption standards are beingused to protect users of the hotspots from  hackers/crackers/attacks.Well how will we know unless we try them out? rob@ On 6/14/05, Mark Tinka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:    On Tuesday 14 June 2005 14:35, Ronny wrote:      First I apologies for editing your subject am good atthat. :-) Talk of hotspots mushrooming up ihere inUG.How secure are they.        How do you mean, secure? In cases like these, securitycould be a point of view. Mark.       Should we rush to get pluggedinto the matrix ;-) .Otherwise am a wirelessadvocate.Congs UTL and did I hear   Infocom ? RonnyAlright good topic Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:        Talk about starting with a bang!Congrats to UTLNeed to go to each one and see what the performanceis like. Kiggs  ********************************************* Kiggundu Mukasa                # Computer NetworkConsultancy### KYM-NET LTD.                   # Intranets &Internet Solutions# Plot 80 Kanjokya Street P.O. Box 24284 Kampala, Uganda Tel:    +256 77 972255          +256 71 221141 Fax:    +256 31 262122 *****************************************************************  ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________LUG mailing listLUG@linux.or.ughttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOMhttp://www.infocom.co.ug/          _______________________________________________LUG mailing listLUG@linux.or.ughttp://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug%LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/         -- ***************************************************************************  / ''We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are''\  \ ,,                                                           ,,/***************************************************************************

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