when last we saw our hero (Monday, Jun 07, 2004), Mike Ellsworth was madly tapping out: > . . . and as long as you don't care that your Web traffic doesn't > travel over the VPN and thus is in the clear. and why wouldn't my http traffic go over the vpn? clearly the http traffic needs to be cleartext at somepoint, but that's going to be on the "other" side of the network, well beyond the "untrusted" portion of the encapsulating packet. if you're dumb enough to run in split tunnel mode when you don't trust the access infrastructure you get what you deserve. ;-) > -----Original Message----- > From: tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org [mailto:tcwug-list-bounces at tcwug.org] On > Behalf Of Scott Dier > Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 6:29 PM > To: sulrich at botwerks.org; Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List > Cc: mellsworth at stratvantage.com; Twin Cities Wireless Users Group List > Subject: [TCWUG] Re: Another point on the wifi hotspot business model > curve.. > > > > i'm a _very_ mobile worker and i plug into service provider > > networks all over the place and i tunnel back to the vpn > > concentrator at corporate or home (depending on what i'm doing) > > i'm not worried about folks sniffing my traffic. > > ... as long as there is mutual authentication of the user and vpn. > :) { snipped - misc .signatures } -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Wireless Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.tcwug.org tcwug-list at tcwug.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tcwug-list