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Hamachi
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Hamachi
Secure Peer to Peer Connectivity
Requirements:
N/A
Pros:
- Small footprint
- Attractive and funcitonal interface
- Fast
- Secure
- Many options
- Low-cost Premium accounts enable more features
- It just works
Cons:
- Reliance on Hamachi network (not problematic)
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Introduction
Would you like to experience true fear? Have a look at any technology news Web site. You'll see plenty to be afraid of. The Internet is chocked full of dangers that threaten not only your precious data, but also important information about you. You simply cannot afford to think of your computer as a safe environment any longer. However, to stay secure, you must be aware of the threats. Here's one you may not have thought of.
You're staying in a hotel and you have your wireless laptop with you. The hotel offers wireless Internet (most do these days), so you log into their wireless network and start sending and receiving e-mail. This is not an uncommon scenario at all, but is it secure? If you think it is, you're dead wrong. Most hotel wireless networks are certainly not designed by computer experts and they operate in such a manner that anyone connected to the network can see all of the traffic that goes across that network. That means that I can sit in that same hotel with my wireless network and intercept all of your e-mail! Not only that, but I can easily intercept your e-mail user ID and password and use it to log into your e-mail account myself whenever I want!
Now I know what many of you are saying; such a thing is rare and requires a high degree of technical knowledge. Wrong again! Any bozo can download a copy of Ethereal (a free network packet sniffer) and with almost no technical knowledge at all, they can pull this information off the network. It's really enough to scare the hell out of you, and if it doesn't, it should. What's more, this is just one example of many.
Now that you're scared out of your wits, I'll give you a solution to the horror. It's called Hamachi, and it's an extremely cool application.
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