[Noisebridge-discuss] How do you secure your public wifi usage?

Shannon Lee shannon at scatter.com
Tue Jan 5 17:54:31 UTC 2010


I second ssh/socks and foxyproxy, but Sai makes good points... I'll check
out proxifier.

On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 4:00 AM, Sai Emrys <noisebridge at saizai.com> wrote:

> SSH + Proxifier, as I wrote to list recently.
>
> Of course this only makes my connection security issues delegated to
> my proxy server rather than my hotspot, so SSL etc are still required,
> but it's still good.
>
> I've used FoxyProxy, but IMO proxifier is better because it's
> significantly more comprehensive; FP is leaky and in any event only
> covers Firefox, rather than also the multiple other programs that
> access the 'net (e.g. Adium, Skype, etc).
>
> - Sai
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