Grant wrote:

>I took your advice and dropped wpa_supplicant for iwconfig and this
>sucker is online!  Thank you RIchard!  I sure learned a lot setting
>this up.
>  
>

Your welcome.

>Is my info sent via SSH or SSL (relatively) safe from the owner of the
>network?  I had to map a MAC address to an arbitrary ESSID so I'm not
>totally sure who I'm connected to.
>  
>

That's the idea.  The only 'easy' points of attack for an SSL/SSH
connection is with root level access to your system or the server you
are talking to.  Everything in between would just have access to the
encrypted data, so an attack becomes much more expensive.

-Richard


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