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WiFi Survival
It has been almost a year since I became aware of the risk of connecting to open WiFi points without the benefit of a VPN. Perhaps it was due to some of the travel that I had through O’Hare over the course of a few points. Over the course of six or eight weeks, I was traveling through the same terminals and firing up the laptops. What I was seeing were more and more “Free Access”, “Open WiFi”, Consumer WiFi, Courtesy Acces Point and similar ID’s showing up.
Of course, as different sections of the official O’Hare network opened up, more and more transient bad guys were putting up fake access points.
I discovered Public VPN – and have been pretty happy with their service. It’s a pleasure to use on the Mac with OSX – totally transparent. On the Toshiba box WiFi in general is a different story – but when I am able to get XP , the un-disconnectable Toshiba wireless manager, and the Intel chipset manager to quit fighting, the VPN is well worth the trouble.
Or at least I feel better seeing the test site indicator turn from red to green.
After all, in the wide open jungles of O’Hare, you don’t have to be able to outrun the bear, you just have to outrun the other guy, and make him a more attractive WiFi target. Public VPN fills the bill for $60 a year – and combined with a $200 limit Visa card used only for online logins and day passes, it makes open WiFi computing just a bit more sane.
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