First, there are several technologies that work around this problem.
I am working with a startup that has a USB device that handles this
issue nicely and I know of a couple of others. The problem is hardly
intractable.
Second, what happens when you lose your laptop or have it stolen?
This happens with shocking frequency these days and it's getting
worse. I'd be a lot more concerned about THAT security issue than
with the loss of data over relatively secured and busy Internet wires
and signals.
On Nov 16, 2005, at 3:52 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
I have good confidence in the sanctity of my laptop, so I'm happy
to use it, even over public wifi access, because all the traffic is
ssh-secured end-to-end. But using a web cafe, or kiosk, public
Internet access at a library, etc. all put me at risk; the
encryption happens *after* the data is out of my control. I can't
be sure there isn't a keylogger or similar there grabbing my password.
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