 NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | reply to Ziggy77
Re: Can park manager view search logs Unless your particular wireless ISP administrator is especially paranoid and is actively sniffing all internet traffic (which in and of itself must be violating some FCC laws), it's unlikely.
The thing to take away is that yes, it definitely is possible to sniff plaintext traffic and extract what you're searching on google, e.t.c., but it's highly unlikely.
If you're really worried enough to care, you should try the local coffee shop for searches or activity you find sensitive. That's what I'd recommend. That, or you can use TOR.
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NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | No problem. I'd say try Tor first, it's really good for this kind of stuff: »www.torproject.org/
It isn't perfect, mind you, the same snooping frequently happens at the endpoints of the routing (a lot of people have raised some concerns), but if you're concerned about the link inbetween, Tor can be a lifesaver.
There's a firefox derivative which has Tor built in which was used to be called Torpark, as well: »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XeroBank_Browser
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 jeisenbergNew Year's Eve
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said by Nerdtalker:If you're really worried enough to care, you should try the local coffee shop for searches or activity you find sensitive. That's what I'd recommend. That, or you can use TOR. I agree that using a coffee shop might be a good strategy if you're trying to hide information from the party that supplies your usual internet connection, but TOR isn't going to help the situation where the traffic analysis is being done at the very point where you connect to the internet. All traffic you generate/receive goes through that end point, so unless it's encrypted, it can be seen by someone who really wants to see it. |
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Fremont, CA | Why wouldn't it? Tor traffic goes out of your interface encrypted. The major drawback is if someone controls both the entrance and exit nodes and is able to scan all traffic passing through and correlate which ingress and egress connections are in the same "state." |
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NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | reply to jeisenberg
If he's using ToR locally, though, it means that all traffic leaving him (over the internet) and out to the exit node is encrypted.
User --> Tor (ENCRYPT) ==> Park Manager ==> "Internet" ==> Exit Node (DECRYPT) --> Internet
To the park manager WISP, that traffic is encrypted, and thus completely indecipherable.
The traffic out at the exit node re-emerges unencrypted and back out onto the internet, yes, but at the hop which he's worried about, it is encrypted.
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jeisenbergNew Year's Eve
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Windsor, ON | I stand corrected. I was under the impression TOR was an anonymizer application, not an encrypted tunneling app. |
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NerdtalkerWorking Hard, Or Hardly Working?Premium,MVM
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Tucson, AZ | Not a problem 
It does both, and technically, you're still right since the traffic is back unencrypted at the exit node. |
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