If you are using HTTPS to access those services, you should be ok unless they are proxying all SSL connections. To test if they are, visit a webpage like your bank or email at home and take a look at the certificate (the method of doing so depends on which browser you are using). See who signed the cert for that page - for example, Google's certs are signed by Thawte. Then go to the hospital and browse to the page again over HTTPS. Take a look at the cert, and if it is someone different who signed it (for example MY_ HOSPITAL instead of Thawte for Google) then you know they are proxying all SSL traffic.
Anything you do access over normal HTTP will be viewable on the network. I have used a few different VPN services over the years, all with good results. SwissVPN and iPredator VPN most recently. --------- Brian On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 5:54 PM, Winterlight <winterli...@winterlight.org>wrote: > I have to spend some time in the hospital. They will have wireless > internet service, but I need to be able to make secure transactions from my > laptop to monitor things, and pay my bills. Is my best bet to use a VPN? I > know I could use my home cable service with something like Hamachi LogMeIn > but if something goes down with my home network then I won't be able to fix > it so I am thinking of signing up to a third party service where > reliability and security is paramount. Any suggestions or referrals? thanks > >
