Re: wi-fi security?

[Dave Sherohman <dave@sherohman.org>]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:27:24PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> However, NO wireless security protocol can protect you from packet sniffing 
> at or *behind* the AP.  If the entity that provides the network is a 
> potential attacker, you must use end-to-end security (ssh, ssl, tls, vpn, 
> etc.) for anything not public.

IMO, this is the most important point in all discussions of wireless
network security.  It doesn't matter how secure the wireless connection
itself is, the internet at large is (and almost certainly always will
be) an untrusted network.  If you're already treating all connections
across the public internet as untrusted, then it really doesn't matter
all that much whether the wireless network you're connected to is
trustworthy or not.

-- 
Dave Sherohman