On Tue, 2011-06-28 at 17:41 +0100, Michael Watterson wrote:
> On 28/06/2011 17:20, RussellMc wrote:
> > Once I probably had a GMail password sniffed when used on Hong Kong
> > airport's free WiFi.

Always access "major" sites over https. I have a plugin for firefox that
automatically selects the https version of a website when available
(even google searches are over https for me).

> I use vpn to my home router and then my regular home email ISP SMTP. I=20
> set up my home email server to read the pop3 of ALL mail inc Google and=20
> send it to a Pop3 account on my own hosting (then I can reset password=20
> anytime via home network via vpn).

I do something very similar. I have a vpn server for cases where I need
to access the home network.

For everything else (mounts, mail, vnc) I use ssh tunnels.

My server at home runs an IMAP email server with a script that goes to
all my POP3 accounts and downloads mail. That way everything is on my
home server, and since I run IMAP every client accessing it is
synchronized (no deleted email on one client showing up as unread on
another).

TTYL

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