I can check my email in a wifi hotspot for I use POP mail and I don't have to use a logon or password since it is delivered to me. I don't know how I would feel about giving out those items where someone could be picking up the packets that I SEND OUT. You can certainly use your computer anywhere if you turn off file sharing thus keeping others FROM GETTIN IN. I may be fooling myself that if I turn off Airport and am on ethernet that I am safe to log onto sensitive sites. I am safe with wireless but I have NO idea how the hotel's routers are configured for safely.
I always try to take an Airport Express and plug that into the wall, put the ethernet cable from the hotel into the express. This works great to put me behind my own router but I still have the packets flying around so I don't type any passwords, however anymore most of the hotels make you type in their "code" to get into their system. These codes change every few days so departing guest can't come by and suck dry their system. This type system defeats me using the Airport express for there is no way to type in their code for the express. Renting a Condo for a week usually doesn't have this so the express works great to put my computer behind my router IP addresses. John On Mar 2, 2010, at 12:10 AM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > so, when traveling always use the ethernet connection, shut off file > sharing and airport and don't type your password unless you are > connected with ethernet. > > So does this mean you shouldn't use your computer in a wifi hotspot, > Heine Bros. for instance, to check email? > > And thanks to all of you who responded. > > Harry > > Monday, March 1, 201011:46 PMTom [email protected] > >> System Preferences>Sharing>uncheck (file sharing) >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Mar 1, 2010, at 10:45 PM, Stephen Ellis wrote: >> >> So, How do you turn off file sharing? >> >> Steve >> >> >> >> On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 10:05 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> Harry, >> >> I see this all the time when I travel, amazes me how some people leave >> their computer wide open. >> >> They will be able to see you unless you turn your Airport off. Some >> hotels don't give you the ethernet option so you have to leave it on. >> When I travel I turn my File Sharing off so even if they see me they >> can't get into my files. >> >> A good friend was traveling in Israel, with several others on a Holy >> Land tour. She emailed me from there saying (like you) that she could >> see several and a friend of hers had a Mac and she could get in and see >> her hard drive. The next morning Jeni told the lady this and it was >> disputed, then Jeni ask if she had given her son a Football cake for his >> birthday. Did the trick. >> >> I told her to turn off file sharing and that stopped the problem. >> >> John >> >> >> On Mar 1, 2010, at 9:54 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: >> >> >> >> I am using Leopard on a MacBook pro. >> >> While traveling recently I was using my computer on a hotel network for >> guests. >> >> In the left hand side of the finder window are four tabs (Devices, >> Shared, Places, Search for). >> >> I happened to click on the "shared" tab and discovered a whole list of >> names. I was traveling with friends and recognized a couple of their >> names in the shared columm. >> >> I was able to click on one of my friends names and open his hard drive >> and get several levels down into his computer. >> >> My friend could see me, too. >> >> How can we prevent our computers being seen (and opened) on a wireless >> (or wired) network like you find in a hotel? >> >> How can I prevent others from opening my hard drive? Would I be able to >> tell if they did? >> >> TIA. >> >> Harry >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> MacGroup mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup > _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list [email protected] http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
