Ronny,
What semat is saying is that the ISP provides the medium you ride on, if
you are connecting to something at your office say webmail and for some
reason you dont use HTTPS , your traffic will be sniffed very easily by a
fellow who might not be very many metres away from you, same with the VPN
concept this is just secure connection to the end host,
As for someone connecting to your pc because you riding over un unsecure
medium is completely up to you, people harden there boxes, install personal
firewalls e.g Tiny personal firewall, Zone alarm, for the *nix boxes they
come with firewalls which can be configured in a heartbeat, so at the end of
the day you cant go screaming to UTL and say hey some chap connected to my PC
and messed things up .. this security should completely be up to you as the
end user ( Unless offcourse you have signed a contract with UTL which in this
case i dont think they will be doing for a while OR at all ).
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005 16:49:41 +0300, Ronny wrote
> 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 being
> >>used 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 at
> >>>>that. :-) Talk of hotspots mushrooming up ihere in
> >>>>UG.How secure are they.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>How do you mean, secure? In cases like these, security
> >>>could be a point of view.
> >>>
> >>>Mark.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>Should we rush to get plugged
> >>>>into the matrix ;-) .Otherwise am a wireless
> >>>>advocate.Congs UTL and did I hear Infocom ? Ronny
> >>>>Alright good topic
> >>>>
> >>>>Kiggundu Mukasa wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
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> >>>>>is like.
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