Re: Wireless cafe internet access security

[Mike <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

Again... the BEST is to listen to Security Now (http://www.twit.tv/sn). If
you are really concerned, there are services that will encrypt your
connection. I don't recall any sites off the top of my head.

Just thinking another related site is: http://www.grc.com/securitynow.htm.
The entire scripts of the shows are there.

On 8/11/06, GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <GKern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thanks for the input Doug.
>
> "And I'd suggest WPA at home, not WEP, unless your hardware will not
> support it."
>
> My Thinkpad supports WPA but the wife's Dell doesn't. I'm aware of it and
> WEP is better than nothing.
>
> "What do folks on the road do, who encounter this dilema?" VPN?
>
> Yes - vpn is ok if I'm on the road and the site I connect to offers
> SSL/VPN type stuff.
>
> But my initial question stems from a friend who asked about this while on
> the road in a motor home.
>
> He wants to frequent web sites that do not utilize any mechanism of
> securing connections, but do require a user id/password. He was more
> concerned about logging into, say a site like yahoo, (without the secure
> login option), and then wondering if anyone could steal his login
> credentials, and snoop on his pc for other sites that he may frequent,
> which may use the same user id and password.
>
> My response was to use different passwords, especially for 'sensitive' web
> connections such as work/banking/retirement etc...
>
> Regards, Jerry
>
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