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Web Surfing in Public Places Is A Way to Court Trouble

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-a-gentle-reminder dept.

We had a story come in from the New York Times reminding people that web surfing in public places Is a way to court trouble. There's nothing in the story that is anything hugely new - but it does lead to an interesting question. What's the worst "on the road" security setups you've seen?

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  1. Public computers by spineboy · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I won't do anything on a computer that requires a password that I care about from a 'puter that isn't my home computer. It's too easy for someone else to install a key logger program, etc. I'm always amazed at the number who access their on-line banking from a terminal in the nurses lounge, etc.

    I still won't access it from work from my personal office computer, cause ; 1) it runs Windows, and 2) it's on a network and the security guys are always running "updates" -who knows what's in there.

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  2. Of course, the converse applies too... by gjuk · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Should I ever need to do anything a bit cheeky, I just pop out to the street, find an unsecured wifi, and do anything I like, safe in the knowledge that the cops will have someone else's IP address, and that they'll find it rather hard to find me. Should I say that?