Comments on: Wireless Security: Did you know?

By: T=Machine » Venues with free wifi in Brighton & Hove

T=Machine » Venues with free wifi in Brighton & Hove — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 10:07:57 +0000

[...] of info: – Name of venue – Type of venue (restaurant, pub, cafe, etc) – Is their Wifi encrypted? (see this article for why/how this matters) – Rating (1 = terrible, 5 = perfect) – Tables that have Electric sockets (either single or [...]

By: Andrew Crystall

Andrew Crystall — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 00:20:57 +0000

…I just enable WPA (too many slightly older cards don’t like WPA2) and leave it at that. Things like hiding the SSID I just don’t see as necessary by the time you’ve got proper encryption.

By: adam

adam — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:04:27 +0000

Yep, absolutely. Personally, I have a spare linux server that I setup ad-hoc SSH tunnels to whenever I’m roaming and need to connect over insecure network to a service that doesn’t support SSH/SSL natively. But google will give you many options and walkthroughs for lots of different ways to setup some form of VPN that suits you…

By: Juha

Juha — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 10:29:46 +0000

And for those places where you can’t avoid it (airports, hotels, conferences, cafes, pretty much any time you’re travelling), VPN is the way to go.