Lee, I love it when you join in and give us the "rest of the story", our own Paul Harvey.
I hope I can ask questions going down the list, I'll use a brown color. On Mar 2, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Mar 2, at 6:50 AM, John Robinson wrote: > >> 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. > > If you are using POP and not POPs, this is one of the worst because your user > name and password are repeatedly sent in clear text to the POP server when > you retrieve your mail. What is the difference between a POP and a POPs? I guess the "s" stands for secure but how do you get to that, by using an ISP that allows for SSL? > > When I am in a public WiFi spot, I always make sure my connections are > encrypted before I send a password. Nobody can read what you're sending over > an encrypted connection. > > For example: > > When entering private information for a Web page, look for the little lock > icon. A couple things here. If the little "lock" is grayed, but still shows the certificate to be viewed is it safe? Possibly the lock icon is never dark? In the WiFI spots and you are indeed on an encrypted connection does that mean what you type is sent in a packet that is garbled (encrypted) until it gets to their site and then it is unscrambled? On our end, what do we have to do in order to be sure we are sending encrypted, use and ISP that allows SSL? Aye.net does NOT use SSL, but Insight does so sending an email I would need to use the insight address rather than aye.net, but when I am in a coffee shop and jumping on their service I don't know if is secure (SSL)? How do you know since you have your system set to Insight's specifications yet you are using another ISP? I am confused on this as you can tell. > > When I connect to my work or home computers it's over VPN or SSL/TLS. I don't know that most of us are sophisticated enough to set up a VPN or whatever the SSL/TLS means, but I sure would like to learn. > > I do my mail with IMAPs, not IMAP because it's encrypted. Apple calls it "Use > SSL" under the Advanced tab in the mail account preferences. POP is usually > one of the worst ways to do it because few ISPs provide secure POP servers. So I guess you are using MobileMe for your mail service, and encrypting with the SSL, the same that Insight does. I can start using either of these as I have both but I am still confused as to how that is secure if I am writing my daughter and she is on a service that does not have SSL. I guess it would be secure leaving my machine in the coffee shop and getting to the servers at Insight or Apple, but then going from them to her ISP it would NOT be encrypted if her company didn't support SSL? > > As for file sharing… it's not inherently bad. I leave it turned on, but I > limit what is shared to the Public Folder and make that Read Only for the > unwashed masses and Read & Write to those I trust. All this can be done in > the Sharing preference pane. Thanks Lee, you are so good to "teach", wonder if that would be a good profession for you? I hope I didn't put you int the psych ward over all this, just needing to go the next step to learn more I can tell. John > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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