I think they had more end-to-end security in mind... That would be ssh connections/tunnels, services wrappered in ssl/tls like pop/imap/http, and finally encrypted vpn tunnels. wep even assuming that it worked, only encrypts traffic on the local wireless segment which is nothing at all in the context of a tcp flow that may cross a dozen networks before arriving at it's detination...
joelja On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, jim gronquist wrote: > I've started using the t-mobile wireless service > available at Starbucks and some airports. It works > well in the bay area and I even got a signal in O'Hare > Airport last week (not completely certain that it was > t-mobile). My question is > the t-mobile service suggests that users take security > precautions, however, it doesn't go into any detail of > how to do this. The only thing that I'm familiar with > is setting a WEP Key. Not certain if I can somehow do > this with t-mobile. Anybody else using this service. > Any suggestions on what I might do to at least > minimize any security risks? > > Thanks, > > Jim > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > -- > general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> > [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joel Jaeggli Academic User Services [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PGP Key Fingerprint: 1DE9 8FCA 51FB 4195 B42A 9C32 A30D 121E -- In Dr. Johnson's famous dictionary patriotism is defined as the last resort of the scoundrel. With all due respect to an enlightened but inferior lexicographer I beg to submit that it is the first. -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary" -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
