How to always be sure that your connection is secure

Re:How to always be sure that your connection is secure by erikano on Monday December 06, 2010 @06:28AM (#1974832)

This article is about being sure that (Firefox) traffic is being tunneled when you are on an unprotected WLAN, but I agree that taking extra measures such as using TLS/SSL where possible is also a good addition. However, because not all sites have support for TLS/SSL (e.g. HN), I think it is wise to tunnel all traffic since while the tunnel doesn't add much security to the already encrypted traffic, it still protects the otherwise unsecured traffic from being sniffed by someone else on the unprotected WLAN.

As for TOR, I have found it to generally be painfully slow but I must admit that I haven't tested it at all that much. Also, with clients such as Pidgin and Thunderbird, you can use a SOCKS5 proxy for chat and mail respectively.

Lastly, both Firefox and Thunderbird can be configured to do their DNS lookups through the SOCKS5 proxy.

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Re:How to always be sure that your connection is secure by kgo on Monday December 06, 2010 @02:20PM (#1976420)

But both the title and the summary claim that it secures your 'internet connection', not your 'firefox connection'. That's my big gripe with the article. And of course you can setup SOCKS5 proxies for all apps, but it'd be nice if the article mentioned it.

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Re:How to always be sure that your connection is secure by erikano on Monday December 06, 2010 @03:50PM (#1976755)

I agree that the way I phrased parts of the article may have been a little unfortunate, and that I should mention the possibility of using SOCKS5 for other applications as well - I'll edit the article accordingly as soon as possible after tumblr is accessible again. Thanks for the feedback.

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