Make Wi-Fi safe with private network
| August 21, 2007 |  View for printing |
So you're a self-employed business person, tourist or vacationer and you want to be sure that it's safe when you send e-mail and surf the Web using free Wi-Fi in town and elsewhere. What do you do?
Last week, I mentioned virtual private networks, which are a good solution to the problem. (How safe is your wireless? http://matr.net/article-25187.html ) A VPN is pretty much what it sounds like: your own private tunnel for encrypted data on the Internet.
When you connect to free Wi-Fi, your laptop or PC establishes a link with a wireless router and your data is transmitted back and forth, and, as I pointed out, lots of it is in the clear.
By MARK RATLEDGE for the Missoulian
Mark Ratledge is a Missoula computer consultant. He can be reached at http://www.songdogtech.net.
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