wifi access from laptop to starbucks wifi

Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wolfgang.rupprecht at gmail.com
Tue Jun 22 21:01:49 UTC 2010


Bruno Wolff III <bruno at wolff.to> writes:
> That depends on your threat model. If you don't trust the wireless operator
> the wireless encryption isn't that big of a deal since you need to use an
> encrypted tunnel in any case.

No kidding.  You should use some form of end-to-end encryption any time
you are on the net and don't want your packets looked over.  SSH, HTTPS,
SMTP w. TLS have their uses.

BTW. Even WPA2-PSK seems to have some weaknesses with respect to
inter-customer eavesdropping.  There is some claim that the per-host
keys aren't as securely chosen as they should be.

-wolfgang


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