Wednesday, July 18, 2007
iPhone: how safe is your data at a hot spot?
Pull out your iPhone at a coffee shop and start using the coffee shop's wireless network. How well protected are the data and passwords you send and receive?
Check out the excellent-as-usual article by Glenn Fleishman article about iPhone WiFi security at Macworld. If you're in a hurry, check out the short version at Glenn Fleishman's blog.
It's a mixed bag. Apple did some things right, some things wrong, and some things incompletely or buggily.
The most elegant and effective way to protect yourself from eavesdroppers at a hot spot is to use a "VPN", in which all your data is encrypted (scrambled) as it flies through the air. If your company provides a VPN for road warriors, the iPhone may not work with it depending on the details of how you log in.
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Check out the excellent-as-usual article by Glenn Fleishman article about iPhone WiFi security at Macworld. If you're in a hurry, check out the short version at Glenn Fleishman's blog.
It's a mixed bag. Apple did some things right, some things wrong, and some things incompletely or buggily.
The most elegant and effective way to protect yourself from eavesdroppers at a hot spot is to use a "VPN", in which all your data is encrypted (scrambled) as it flies through the air. If your company provides a VPN for road warriors, the iPhone may not work with it depending on the details of how you log in.
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