You need to run a VPN on top of the wireless connection. This will
give you a secure tunnel from your computer through to the VPN server.
See a good tutorial at www.cites.uiuc.edu/vpn/security.html
The above web site has a couple of nice graphics showing what part
of the communication stream
use 'https' for gmail.
if no vpn, but use https for gmail - wouldn't the wireless signal for
a public connection still be in the clear transmitting your username
and password?
No.
https uses SSL. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Sockets_Layer)
It uses public/private keys to make an
I think, a service like this will give you a false sense of security
since you will be using this VPN tunnel to get to, in this case,
hotspotvpn.com's network, but traffic beyond that is unencrypted and
on regular the internet.
No, it provides the security that was asked for.
This use of a VPN
VPN is of course the answer, if you really MUST perform 'sensitive'
tasks from unsecured networks. But personally, I can hold off doing my
online banking until I get home. Normal websurfing and gmail I just
don't worry about. Though I _do_ always use 'https' for gmail.
When Tony and I agree on
I think we tend to agree on most things. At least, I can't recall the
last time we actually had a *disagreement*. Sometimes you do go off on
tangents though.
Now let's argue about top posting! :)
On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 4:26 PM, Tom Piwowar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VPN is of course the answer,
sure appreciate someone explaining this to me...
trying to figure a way to make a public wireless connection secure for
checking email, logging in to sensitive sites etc. seems like the nature of
public wireless is that all is transmitted in the clear. would be great to
be able to use wpa,
Many places set up security though it be lite to keep people from
outside not being able to log onto the network.
There are routers that allow two sides a public and a private side
for situations like this.
Stewart
At 05:40 PM 8/29/2008, you wrote:
sure appreciate someone explaining this
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Date: Friday, August 29, 2008 04:06 pm
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] security on public wireless
Many places set up security though it be lite to keep people from
outside not being able to log onto the network.
There are routers that allow two sides a public and a private side
for situations like
secure to the site I visit (or email) if the wireless connection is
only public without any encryption available?
From: Rev. Stewart Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008 04:06 pm
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] security on public wireless
Many places set up security though
trying to figure a way to make a public wireless connection secure for
checking email, logging in to sensitive sites etc.
You need to run a VPN on top of the wireless connection. This will give
you a secure tunnel from your computer through to the VPN server. See a
good tutorial at
VPN is of course the answer, if you really MUST perform 'sensitive'
tasks from unsecured networks. But personally, I can hold off doing my
online banking until I get home. Normal websurfing and gmail I just
don't worry about. Though I _do_ always use 'https' for gmail.
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at
04:44 pm
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] security on public wireless
VPN is of course the answer, if you really MUST perform 'sensitive'
tasks from unsecured networks. But personally, I can hold off doing my
online banking until I get home. Normal websurfing and gmail I just
don't worry about. Though I
for gmail - wouldn't the wireless signal for a
public connection still be in the clear transmitting your username and
password?
thank you very much everyone for the replies
From: Tony B [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, August 29, 2008 04:44 pm
Subject: Re: [CGUYS] security on public wireless
Well, that answers that question. All gmail users should note there's
a new option on the Settings page: Always use https.
I'll quote:
LEO: You can protect it by scrambling it. And you mentioned VPN and
other techniques.
STEVE: Well, yeah. I had a person who wrote in
asking, if they were on
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