On 05/23/2016 02:23 PM, Steven Chamberlain wrote: > Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> The web page states: "You are required to register and for verification >> processes your email address is required". So the cost of "free" Wi-Fi >> is really your personal information and its connection to your computer >> equipment, making it easier to track you. Not quite my definition of >> "free", but I guess it depend on the percieved value of ones own >> personal information. :) > > For free Wi-Fi when travelling (using another definition of "free") I > can highly recommended: > > * macchanger > * iodine (takes considerable setup but is worth it, for when it works) > > and others have recommended mosh. These are all Debian packages. > > I would only use SSH, VPN or Tor traffic over public Wi-Fi. Although > `ssh -L 8123:127.0.0.1:8123` allows to easily create a tunnel from > http_proxy=http://127.0.0.1:8123 to a remote proxy like provoxy, polipo > or squid).
I'd also warmly recommend shadowsocks. This nice piece of software also digs holes through nation wide firewalls, for example in countries south of Russia (to avoid names). Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo) _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
