On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 13:18, Tom Mitchell <mitch48@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My concern was the cyber cafe or hotel that a traveling businessman > encounters. There have already been rumors of bad boys snooping bits > and doing naughty things in the cyber cafes. DHCP smelled like a > potential problem where time of day, DNS, SMTP and a list of other > "important" administrative decisions could be silently co-opted. Yes, Internet cafe's can break your security in more ways than you want to imagine. If you don't do certificate checking with SSL then they can just proxy all connections too... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
