On Vi, 07 ian 11, 16:23:16, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > On Sex, 07 Jan 2011, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >If you consider an open wireless to be more dangerous, what additional > >protective measures do you suggest? > > Enable encryption of the wireless traffic (but not WEP, which is too weak). I might not have control over that (hotel or pub wireless). > SSL is always nice, but there isn't much you can do if the remote > site does not use it. > > A VPN (or a ssh tunnel) will provide more security, but you'll need > a remote host. No, I'm not going to set up a VPN just to browse public sites from a public wireless. Of course, I would not access sensitive stuff unless properly protected (SSH, SSL, ...), but this is not different than what I'm doing anyway when using my home connection (wired or not). What *other* protection do you think is necessary, something that you would not do anyway if the same computer was connected *directly* to the internet (no NAT and/or external firewall)? Regards, Andrei -- Offtopic discussions among Debian users and developers: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/d-community-offtopic
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