Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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: [snip] > >>>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/ > >> > >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
Just keep in mind to always check that SSL is locked _before_ entering any login information. ;) hth, cooper. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
