On Ma, 04 ian 11, 09:31:52, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Ter, 04 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >Would you care to explain why you find an open wireless to be more > >dangerous than your regular internet connection? > > Because anyone nearby with a laptop can sniff the traffic, unlike > with a regular cabled internet connection or a password protected > wireless network (in which traffic in encrypted)? The wireless encrypts the traffic only between my laptop and my AP. Beyond my AP the wireless encryptions does not bring any additional security. Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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