From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Dq1yy-0002xH-MX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 04:58:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j664uJKW014987; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:56:19 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.12]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j664qhMr031108 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 04:52:43 GMT Received: from amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id D15882A89C7 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:53:29 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (hathor.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.1]) by amun.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AFDD293D79 for ; Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:53:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3.4) with ESMTP id 6225386 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jul 2005 06:53:27 +0200 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Travelling in Greece, need advice Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:53:28 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.1 References: <49bf44f10507051238e316b9c@mail.gmail.com> <200507060311.52458.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <7A3EC739-E6A1-4B61-90BB-E725A42E10AD@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <7A3EC739-E6A1-4B61-90BB-E725A42E10AD@shire.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200507060653.28162.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: f0b444d2-b94f-4a28-800a-2c9218157534 X-Archives-Hash: bf5be74d6c783f8eaafb8c77e0aa0532 On Wednesday 06 July 2005 03:29, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: > > > I would not trust a wifi setup by a unknown 3rd party to do online > > banking. > > > > The security of the average wifi is pretty low. Because of > > lazyness, stupidity > > or bugs. > > However, any good bank will have SSL for the higher level protocols, > and the wifi should be as secure as public wired connections (ie DSL > etc). (which is to say, not secure). If you trust your cable modem > or DSL to do SSL-enabled online banking, you should be ok with the wifi > hm, you want to tell me, that it is as easy to get into the computer room, hack a line and listen, than to hold an atenna in the right direction? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list