On Mi,02.sep.09, 10:18:10, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > I can imagine all but the paranoid users (like me ;) actually activating
> > this after reading the paragraph above.
>
> Do you mean "I CAN'T imagine"?
Of course, was a typo ;)
Regards,
Andrei
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If you can't explain it simply, you don't und
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 09:07:34 +0300
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Mon,31.Aug.09, 18:10:24, Celejar wrote:
> >
> > "Google did not explain why using this new feature was so important,"
> > Perry said. "This gives people who routinely log in to Gmail beginning
> > with an https:// session a false sense
On Mon,31.Aug.09, 18:10:24, Celejar wrote:
>
> "Google did not explain why using this new feature was so important,"
> Perry said. "This gives people who routinely log in to Gmail beginning
> with an https:// session a false sense of security, because they think
> they're secure but they're really
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 00:07:57 -0400
Nick Lidakis wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
>
> > 2) How do I make my laptop more secure so others on wifi network can't
> > steal or sniff my packets?
> >
>
> If you're using Gmail over wifi you should be logging in wi
On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 12:55:46 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
...
> Actually, I think I was referring to the earlier 12 to 15 minute attack,
> although I didn't get either from slashdot.
http://www.itworld.com/security/57285/once-thought-safe-wpa-wi-fi-encryption-cracked
http://it.slashd
On Monday 31 August 2009 01:04:57 Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:27:24 -0500
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
> > If the wireless network uses WPA, you might be safe. There are some
> > fairly sophisticated attacks against WPA personal, that don't require
> > much resources besides time.
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 12:27:24 -0500
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote:
...
> If the wireless network uses WPA, you might be safe. There are some fairly
> sophisticated attacks against WPA personal, that don't require much
> resources besides time. So, treat those networks has if they have no
> s
In <4a7b1eb8.1030...@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
>> BTW, self-signed certificate != end-to-end security, it is trivial for
>> an attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
>
>Except, if it is you who self-signed BOTH certificates (and v
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> BTW, self-signed certificate != end-to-end security, it is trivial for an
> attacker to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
Except, if it is you who self-signed BOTH certificates (and verify that
it is still the one
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
Paul E Condon wrote:
> I want DHCP in the Acer because I intend to use it in the outside world,
> not merely on my LAN. But I want to set it up on my LAN, and hopefully,
> prepare it for defending itself in the outside world.
>
> I now see wicd in apt
On 2009-08-06_08:16:34, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Manon Metten wrote:
>
> > ...when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove
> > 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless,
> > I cancelled the installation.
> >
>
> yes, this will also happen if you are running
Manon Metten wrote:
> ...when I tried this, aptitude asked if it should remove
> 'network-manager-kde'. As I'm using that app and don't have wireless,
> I cancelled the installation.
>
yes, this will also happen if you are running the gnome network manager.
it's sort of 'all or nothing'.
anoth
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:27:24PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> However, NO wireless security protocol can protect you from packet sniffing
> at or *behind* the AP. If the entity that provides the network is a
> potential attacker, you must use end-to-end security (ssh, ssl, tls, vpn,
On 06 Aug 2009, Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:29 +0100
> Anthony Campbell wrote:
>
> > When I installed network-manager a week ago it blocked wired access to my
> > router. I expect I could have reconfigured it in some way but it turned
> > out to be unnecessary for my purpose so
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 03:28:21PM -0500, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>
>
> wicd has been flawless for me since i started using it.
After playing with wicd for a week or three I went back to
network-manager. I cannot remember what my problem with wicd was, but
it was just ea
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 12:37:30PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> On 2009-08-05_14:27:26, Johann Spies wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> > > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
> > > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of t
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> 2) How do I make my laptop more secure so others on wifi network can't
> steal or sniff my packets?
>
If you're using Gmail over wifi you should be logging in with
https:gmail.com. Using https encrypts not just the login but the ent
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 22:04:13 -0600
Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> I find myself with a very puzzling problem. I want to look at wicd,
> but I can't. When I tried to install it with aptitude, I could not
> find it using / search.
Check your sources.list. wicd comes from the wicd repository rather
tha
Hi Paul,
Sorry, made an error. You should use or course:
> # aptitude install -t lenny-backports wicd
Greetings, Manon.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Manon Metten wrote:
> Hi Paul,
>
> I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
> http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
Hi Paul,
I'm running Lenny and found wicd on Debian Backports at:
http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/wicd
You should add the next line to your /etc/apt/sources.list (ie: if
you're too using Lenny)
deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ lenny-backports main contrib non-free
run 'aptitude upd
On 2009-08-05_15:28:21, Preston Boyington wrote:
> Paul E Condon wrote:
>
>
>
> > I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is
> > installed on my Acer Aspire one...
>
> Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second
> thing I uninstall on my De
On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 17:50:29 +0100
Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 05 Aug 2009, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> > >
> > > The easiest way is to use network-manager. If you click on the Icon
> > > in your toolbar it should show you the detected networks. You can use
> > > the "Create New Wireless Network
* Zachary Uram [2009 Aug 05 07:04 -0500]:
> Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
> used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops
> that offer free wii but I need to know:
>
> 1) How do I setup wifi in Linux?
Have a supported chipset (Atheros is
Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am having some difficulty with network-manager. Aptitude says it is
> installed on my Acer Aspire one...
Paul, seriously take a look at wicd. network-manager is now the second
thing I uninstall on my Debian/Ubuntu machines (the first being the
update-manager because I
On 2009-08-05_14:27:26, Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> > Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
> > used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops
> > that offer free wii but I need to know:
> >
In , Zachary
Uram wrote:
>2) How do I make my laptop more secure so others on wifi network can't
>steal or sniff my packets?
That depends on the security used by the network, which is not a choice you
make when connecting to it, but rather a choice made by the entity that
provides the network.
On 05 Aug 2009, Michael Ekstrand wrote:
> >
> > The easiest way is to use network-manager. If you click on the Icon
> > in your toolbar it should show you the detected networks. You can use
> > the "Create New Wireless Network..." or "Connect to Hidden Wireless
> > Network..." to set up connecti
Johann Spies wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
>> Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
>> used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops
>> that offer free wii but I need to know:
>>
>> 1) How do I setup wifi in
On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 07:45:48AM -0400, Zachary Uram wrote:
> Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
> used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops
> that offer free wii but I need to know:
>
> 1) How do I setup wifi in Linux?
The easiest way is
Got a new laptop and was wondering about wifi security. I've never
used wifi before. I wanted to go to some of the local coffee shops
that offer free wii but I need to know:
1) How do I setup wifi in Linux?
1) How do I detect and connect to public free network(s)?
2) How do I make my laptop more s
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