Is your WiFi hot spot secure?

[Jackie]

Interesting piece on our BBC Watchdog programme last night.

BBC - Watchdog: Is your Wifi secure?

 

[David Baxter PhD]

mg:

Is your WiFi hot spot secure?

That seems like rather a personal question...

 

[Jackie]

mg:



That seems like rather a personal question...

:rolling::rolling:

 

[SilentNinja]

There's a new thing now... people name there laptop's " Free Public Wifi" and when you see this you connect and they hack you!!!!! Someone in my street is a hacker... i didnt fall for it though, my WiFi Connection Is Called " Strathclye Police" Thats the name of the police here, Scares hackers off maybe!

 

[David Baxter PhD]

Good idea.

 

[Jackie]

Brillant idea. I think will go and re-name mine right now to MI5 or MI6

 

[Daniel E.]

A solution, as mentioned in the BBC article, is to establish a VPN (virtual private network), which can be free and relatively easy with something like this:

LogMeIn Hamachi^2

More info:
Using Public Wi-Fi? Hop Into a Free VPN Tunnel First