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Technically, Tor, but at that point you are just moving your mis-placed trust from one (local WiFi) entity to another (exit node). For the tech-savvy, use VPN,
by phlo 12y ago
Technically, Tor, but at that point you are just moving your mis-placed trust from one (local WiFi) entity to another (exit node).
For the tech-savvy, use VPN, it's free[1]. And there's pre-built images[2].
[1] http://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/11vmnf/how_to_use_a_freetier_amazon_aws_ec2_cloud_server/ http://www.reddit.com/r/VPN/comments/11vmnf/how_to_use_a_fre...
[2] http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/cloudmachines/513-access-server-amazon-vpc.html http://openvpn.net/index.php/access-server/cloudmachines/513...
- eli 12y agoAnd in practice, exit nodes are extremely untrustworthy. I just recently had one providing self-signed certificates for HTTPS. Someone was up to no good.
- dredmorbius 12y agoSelf-signed certs for itself or for the endpoint site you were connecting to?
- eli 12y agoThe endpoint site. Then I hit reload and it was gone. SSLStrip probably would have been more effective. But, yeah, I think the people using Tor to provide "security" for an insecure wifi are making a huge mistake.