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From: Richard Bradshaw (no email)
Date: Thu Jul 14 2005 - 11:12:13 EDT
Dwight,
I'll have a check over there but it may be too late. I did a
wholesale delete when mailboxes exceeded 1 mb (and there were several
of those) knowing that I would never get to the posts. (Didn't even
have time to read them while I was away either; too many. If i start
looking, I'm lost because I _will_ keep reading and I have no time to
do all that.) So, if it was "huge" it might well be long gone. And,
if "debate" is a another word for "flame fest" I think I'll pass.
Don't like to add fuel to a fire usually.
When you used an Internet cafe, did you use their machine or yours?
Did you use them to contact or check on financial matters that
included providing your account numbers and passwords? How did you
ensure that there were no keystroke loggers and the like attached? I
just had an instance here last night where I was unable to access my
own wireless network after coming back. My wife had the same
experience with a wired but wireless enabled tower. I immediately
thought that someone had hacked through a longer than normal alpha
numeric security code and changed the network code. Turned out this
morning that I just needed to unplug the cable modem, network hub,
and the Extreme Airport wireless unit, let it clear for a few
seconds, and then plug them back in one at a time. The wireless
network came back. Paranoid? I guess so but I had just come back off
the road and then all the stuff started to hit the fan. How do you
handle that in an Internet cafe or elsewhere outside your "normal,
controllable" location?
Rick
>Richard,
>
>You might do well to pose your question on:
>
>There is/was a huge debate going on there all last week. I think
>they would be very interested in your story of logging onto someone
>elses network :)
>
>In my experience and hearing from others there aren't many wifi
>hotspots in the carribean. My friend Bill came across just one in a
>marina (I forget where) and it turned out to be one of the nearby
>boats.
>
>I use internet cafe's wherever I sail and have not had any problems yet.
>
>dwight yachuk
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