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Originally Posted by renderman
Regular web surfing is'nt a big issue if it's for sports scores and news, unless you start going to sites requiring authentication. I'd tunnel everything I could that needed authentication (email, secure sites, etc) through the tunnel home. The performance hit is well worth the safety. Though you might want to consider some level of security that it's actually *your* box your connecting to and not a man-in-the-middle (airsnarf)
There's not really much you can do in terms of 3rd party security other than a VPN since a public hotspot by definition needs to be open.
My road connecting setup is: Firewalled laptop, ssh tunnel to home system with S/KEY one time passwords, do everything on remote workstation using VNC tunneled over SSH. The only traffic is in the SSH tunnel  |
Not sure what all the fuss is about, if you are connecting to an SSL web page which most password and sensetive pages are, your data is encrypted. while traveling over wireless or wired it makes no difference, Just like a sniffer can pick up information traveling in the air, so can a man in the middle pick up information over the core internet. Wireless aspect makes it all the more public and accessable, thought not more breakable.
Advice is;
Always update your antiviruses,
always update your OS patches. enable your soft
firewall, and ONLY give senstive data over
CERTIFIED and secure
SSL pages. As with Filesharing, I would not advise that in a coffeshop, unless its not sensitive data
Am I missing something, Because I hear all the hype, yet I have not yet seen a case where passwords have been decrypted over the air while traveling to an SSL destination. But believe me the day SSL is cracked, we either have to move like lightning to 256k encryption, or Game over for Internet as we see it.