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Originally Posted by renderman
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)
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THATS the type of thing that creeps me out. The whole AirPWN thing got me concerned with connecting at public spots...the idea of someone intercepting HTTP traffic at a public hotspot and injecting goatse jpgs is one thing, but potentially intercepting and redirecting what i believe to be TUNNELED traffic is totally scary. I have my VPN settings configured to a particular IP address, and also set to drop any connection which isnt encrypted and I have a software firewall installed. Beyond that, I'm not exactly sure what other steps I can take to ensure a secure connection.
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Originally Posted by audit
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You know, I never thought about that. I always thought that Anonymizer just provided anonymous surfing, I didn't realize that their paid service also provided SSL. Thanks for the info. How is the latency on the service (the free service seems to lag a bit)?
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Originally Posted by peekitty
It's good that software firewalls are almost ubiquitous
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Yeah, firewalls help to some degree, but I'm more worried about somebody just sniffing my packets right out of the air than I am them "breaking into" my machine per se.