On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:11 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 02:07, Jason Cooper wrote:
Grant ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled:
Hello! I am travelling and am currently on the Greek island of
Corfu.
It is great! I have my laptop but I'm finding it totally
impossible
to find a place that will let me plug into their network for
Internet
access. I can't use public systems because of keyboard loggers and
bank passwords etc. My business is seriously dying at this point
and
after a lot of thinking, I think my best option is to get my modem
working and hire one of the global dial-up providers. I should be
able to find a phone line wherever I am. Does anyone have a better
idea? If not, does anyone recommend a particular one of these
companies?
Go wifi, try this for a list of hotspots worldwide:
http://intel.jiwire.com/
hth,
cooper.
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
Chad
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