Originally Posted by back seat
I guess I am getting paranoid, but I am trying to figure out how much a “threat” packet sniffers are. People are saying that a person with a piece of freeware can watch all of your traffic in a public WIFI location.
Is this correct? If so what are people doing to protect themselves?
WIFI or not, all your data is available for packet capture to anyone upstream. What should you do? The same thing as always. Use SSH, SSL and HTTPS. If you packets are encrypted it does not matter who is looking at them.
