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Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> Thu, 08 August 2013 06:42 UTC

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From: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
To: Stefan Winter <stefan.winter@restena.lu>
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On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Stefan Winter wrote:

> Without verifying the server cert of the 802.1x network, you may well 
> talk to the network encryptedly, but the network might be a MitM who can 
> decrypt and snoop out your traffic.

Absolutely, but that's harder than just setting your wifi card in promisc 
mode and listening to all the traffic.

On these kinds of events I usually connect to encrypted network that might 
be available, and then try to send as much traffic as possible through ssh 
tunnel.

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Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike@swm.pp.se

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