RE: Secure and unsecure install problem

"Casey Halverson" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.wireless.seattle.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"End-to-end encryption" is still subject to man-in-the-middle attacks.
Best avoid the entire situation.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Morgan Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2005 3:34 PM
> To: SeattleWireless Talk List
> Subject: Re: Secure and unsecure install problem
> 
> You're sending unencrypted traffic to the internet?
> 
> The goal of WEP here is to prevent the guests from sniffing 
> the traffic between machines on the office network and to 
> prevent them from directly accessing/attacking them by 
> preventing them from associating.
> 
> Anything you send out to the internet is already insecure and 
> subject to sniffing/spoofing. I personally make sure anything 
> I care about is encrypted at the network, transport or 
> application layer (POP3/S, SMTP/S, S/MIME, SSL, SSH, IPSec). 
> My general web browsing isn't all that interesting nor sensitive.
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