[OpenWireless Tech] Is it safe enough?

[Hans of Guardian]

Its a quite complicated question that depends a lot on where you are in the world, what kinds of websites and network services you are using, whether you are using Tor or a VPN, etc.

One thing is clear: using a wifi network with a password (WEP, WPA, etc) does not guarantee security.  WEP is trivially breakable.  WPA can also be broken and only hides the network traffic from people who are in same spot as you (like less than 100m).  So wifi networks with passwords only address a couple very specific threats.

All that said, there are some risks that are a little increased by using open wifi, but that applies using any open wifi.  So if you are concerned, then never use any open wifi.

.hc

On Jul 28, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Hosam Hittini wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm not an expert here, I heard about this initiative from a podcast and this is what I know
> What I know is packers transferred over both networks (e.g. Public and Private) are encrypted
> The private network packets are encrypted using the settings you choose and the public network packets are encrypted using settings defined by the standard
> The client attempting to access the public network should have these settings delivered using an OpenWireless software as I suppose
> 
> Regards,
> Hosam Hittini
> 
>> On Jul 28, 2014, at 11:04 AM, "zhaowe_98" <zhaowe_98 at foxmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> If I set my network as an open one, is it safe enough?? will the hackers see what I'm doing, or who I am, or get my password while I'm logging in a website? As the information are transferring without encoding..
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