On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:27:24PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > However, NO wireless security protocol can protect you from packet sniffing > at or *behind* the AP. If the entity that provides the network is a > potential attacker, you must use end-to-end security (ssh, ssl, tls, vpn, > etc.) for anything not public.
IMO, this is the most important point in all discussions of wireless network security. It doesn't matter how secure the wireless connection itself is, the internet at large is (and almost certainly always will be) an untrusted network. If you're already treating all connections across the public internet as untrusted, then it really doesn't matter all that much whether the wireless network you're connected to is trustworthy or not. -- Dave Sherohman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
