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Re: a changing network security landscape is difficult for even the biggest tech companies to wrestle with

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From: Dave Page <grimoire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2007 10:48:17 +0100
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On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 06:16:37PM -0700, coderman wrote:

> the spreading popularity of wireless data networks may do more for
> protecting Tor users against malicious exit nodes than any other
> efforts in progress.  perhaps big names pushing the HTTPS message will
> help inform and protect users who seem to give little heed to the
> prominent and oft repeated instructions to ensure encryption is used
> over Tor when privacy of content, in addition to location, is needed.

I'm personally surprised that ISPs (and other companies) aren't offering
VPN services to avoid wifi hijacking.

Dave
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