posted by Teresa Nielsen Hayden / Moderator , January 10, 2008 10:42 AM If strangers came to my door asking for food, I’d give them some. Why not WiFi?
__________________________ #5 posted by pork musket , January 10, 2008 10:43 AM That’s an interesting perspective. However, from a consumer standpoint, the security reasons you shouldn’t use open unknown wifi connections are really obvious. It is not hard, if one has control of the packets, to hijack someone’s session and screw with how they see/interact with the internet. I could easily go to an airport, setup a ‘FREE Public WiFi’ peer-to-peer network on my laptop, wait for someone to connect, and then serve them up a fake paypal.com or any other website. If you MUST use untrusted connections, please, SSH tunnel or otherwise use encryption.
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