RE: Wireless Security

[<nobledark () hushmail com>]

You could do it yourself if you have a decent Internet connection 
at your house, work, etc using OpenVPN and the redirect-gateway 
option. I've seen other options including using a combination of 
stunnel and squid but haven't explored them.

Have a look at www.openvpn.net for more info. There are also 
services like MetroPipe, AliveProxy, etc that can wrap your traffic 
in an encrypted envelope that you could look at. Note that I am not 
endorsing any of the services (never used them) but they might 
worth reviewing if you want to use a "service".

 - Nd

On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:43:17 -0500 Murda Mcloud 
<murdamcloud () bigpond com> wrote:
> All this makes me wonder if anyone has heard of a service provided 
> by a site
> which allows you to do something like this? Eg setup some kind of 
> tunnel to
> their servers over an 'insecure' connection from which you can 
> then browse
> the world.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: listbounce () securityfocus com 
> [mailto:listbounce () securityfocus com] On
> Behalf Of steve menard
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2008 10:45 AM
> To: Security Basics
> Cc: Yousef Syed
> Subject: Re: Wireless Security
>
> Do you have a machine outside you could setup a ssh tunnel to?
>
> NO? then anyone watching the wireless stream WILL see ALL Traffic
> ;-(
>
> I went to a mall with a restaurant serving non encrypted wireless
> using a ethernet snoop I saw every non encrypted traffic everyone 
> was 
> using in almost clear text ;
> well clear protocol ; totally easy to trace and decode    ;-P
>
> except for their encrypted sessions ; I saw the traffic but they 
> were 
> encrypted
> I would have needed to do extra to get them ;-)
>
> Steve
>
>
> Yousef Syed wrote:
> > I need some advice.
> > I'm currently staying in an apartment complex that provides free
> > wireless Internet access.
> > The access has zero crypto - not even WEP.
> >
> > What can I do on my own Laptops (Mac OS X and Windows XP Pro) to 
> make
> > my browsing/internet usage more secure? I also want to ensure 
> that no
> > one else on the network is entering my systems.
> >
> > The Windows Laptop already has Kaspersky Internet Security and 
> various
> > spyware/adware checkers etc
> >
> > Thanks,
> > ys

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