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communication:security [2017/10/27 00:10] frater_secessus [your connection to the net] |
communication:security [2017/10/27 00:34] frater_secessus [VPN] |
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- | ====== Wireless security ====== | + | ====== Wireless security |
- | + | Because nomads, by definition, don't stay in one place their internet connection is usually wireless (ie, radio based). | |
- | Wifi and mobile data are both based on radios | + | |
- you are transmitting sensitive data; //and// | - you are transmitting sensitive data; //and// | ||
- the data is unencrypted at any point along the route | - the data is unencrypted at any point along the route | ||
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If the website is not secured then password **protected wifi or mobile data may protect you from casual onlookers at that first hop**.((ie, at that McDonalds or between your phone and the tower. | If the website is not secured then password **protected wifi or mobile data may protect you from casual onlookers at that first hop**.((ie, at that McDonalds or between your phone and the tower. | ||
+ | It is a fallacy to think open wifi connections present any threat to connections to secured websites. \\ | ||
+ | It is a fallacy to think mobile data increases security on connections to secured websites. | ||
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+ | ==== VPN ==== | ||
+ | A vpn encrypts one or more of the first hops and exits Somewhere Else. After the VPN exit the traffic is just as it was: either secured or unsecured. | ||
+ | The real value of a VPN is: | ||
+ | * hide one's IP address from the world in order to foil geolocation | ||
+ | * hide traffic from an employer, ISP, or someone else //in the first few hops// | ||
==== what about Three Letter Agencies ==== | ==== what about Three Letter Agencies ==== |