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Originally Posted by L Y R
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
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I understand the importance of using SSL when logging into banks or email. I was wondering if someone could clarify something for me though. Alot of sites uses cookies when you click on "remember me". It seems when I access the sites after doing this, it doesn't send a username or password (encrypted or otherwise), and I was wondering how this worked. I guess I don't understand how cookies are communicating with the website..
Thanks..