WI-FI security when traveling?

If I have my OS 10.6.4 firewall enabled and are connecting to the internet using a hotel's WI-FI how secure am?

I would say that you're pretty secure as long as you put your computer to sleep while not using it. You should definitely have a not-easy login password especially if filesharing is enabled. You should also have the locking screensaver enabled.
The really dangerous hacker is a rare breed, and unless you are a big huge target it's not worth worrying about. One routinely sees Windows boxes on the localnet totally unlocked with personal information available to the public. Your Mac will never be that insecure.

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Do you want to watch the live feed of your secutiry cameras or recorded footage?
In either case, I don't think iCloud is your solution.
For the first one, check with your security camera software, they usually have this option of broadcasting, so you'll know how to access it.
For the later, you should use something like Dropbox (www.dropbox.com), since iCloud file sharing is, up to this date, app restricted.
Hope it helps.
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How can I avoid re-configuring my outgoing server when travelling?

I have always "reconfigured" my 'outgoing server' -- the smtp setting under MAIL preferences -- when travelling outside my ISP's service area. (For 12 years with Eudora, and now 4 years with MAIL). But often at hotels, or in airports, it's not possible to get the info, that is, the smtp designator for the ISP serving the hotel or airport. When unable to get that info, I have to revert to using my home ISP's "webmail" which is clunky, limited, slow, inflexible, and doesn't integrate well with my Apple MAIL later. I hate using it.
When I AM able to get the local smtp designator info when on the road, it nearly always does the trick and I am able to do all my email work as I would back at my home office.
However, recently, I stayed with a friend on the west coast, (let's call him Brian) who is something of a Mac expert, but he was unable to confidently give me the smtp designators for his local ISP-- apparently because he never has to change his smtp configuration when on the road! Like me, he uses two servers, that is, he is connected at his home via the phone company's DSL service using a high speed modem, but he likes to retain the email address he had originally got from an earlier ISP he used, back when he was on dial-up. So he pays that ISP a monthly $5.00 to allow him to continue to use the email address he has had since being their customer way back when. So we called both of Brian's ISP's and got their smtp designators. However, neither of these, when plugged into my MAIL preferences, would allow me to "send" using Apple MAIL and I was again obliged to use my clunky webmail.
Now, it seems to me he is being "relayed" (is that the right term?) by the phone company sending outgoing mail over to the older ISP, and the older ISP relays his mail over to the phone company's server to give him his incoming mail. When I am visiting him, this may be to confusing for the smtp configuration in my MAIL.
I would think not, though, because I have a similar setup: I connect to a cable company modem from my home on the east coast, but my address is the one I got from our local phone company before high-speed became available to us via the cable TV service. When we switched from the phone company's dial-up to the cable company's high- speed, we kept the original email address --which was specific to the phone company-- and we pay $5.00 per month for the privilege. Seems very similar to Brian's setup.
However, at Brian's, changing the smtp designator doesn't work to allow me to send emails from Apple's MAIL program.
Brian tells me he doesn't have to do this smtp change when he travels, with his Apple MAIL. He doesn't know why I do it, nor why I should have to. I suspect, that unknown to him, his ISP has some kind of setup whereby his smtp designation is a sort of "universal" outgoing server designation, and his outgoing emails are accepted no matter which ISP he is using when away from home. And I think my MAIL configuration must be incompatible with that. This is just my suspicion.
So my questions are:
1. why doesn't Brian have to re-configure his smtp outgoing server when he travels? and...
2. how can I get that kind of universal "email send-ability" when I travel, and not have to be challenged with having to re-do my outgoing server when travelling, using Apple's MAIL?
Any insights will be most gratefully received!!!!
PS I'm using Snow Leopard on MacBook 10.6.8; I think Brian is using Leopard on a 15-in Powerbook.

Many email providers allow you to send from outside their network if you set up authentication to their servers in your outgoing mail server setup. You may wish to confirm this with your email provider, but you can just try this:
1) Go to the Accounts preference in Mail
2) Select your email account
3) On the Account Information tab, locate the "Outgoing Mail Server" section and pull the menu down to "Edit SMTP Server list"
4) Select the appropriate outgoing server and go to the Advanced tab
5) In the Authentication pulldown, select "Password" and enter in your email account ID and password
6) Click all the applicable "OK" buttons to close it all up and save the information.
That may work with your email provider, or they may have additional settings needed such as "Use Security Sockets Layer (SSL)". Your provider should be able to tell you what specific settings you need if the basic user name and password don't work.
Regards.

Now I can send eMails when traveling - but trouble RECEIVING them!

I posted this question a few weeks ago and got a great reply which works fine - see following:
When I am in a hotel out of town or overseas- or just anywhere where I don't have my home ISP - how can I not only RECEIVE but also SEND eMail via my Mail program?
I know I can go to the www and use my MobileMe account - but it is easier if I can use Mail and also use my POP as well as my MobileMe account. With Eudora I used to set the smtp for send after looking it up (when I could find it) with Reverse DNS - but how / what do I fill-in with Mail to be able to send as well as receive eMails?
REPLY: If your ISP is like mine, it authenticates you for outgoing e-mail by being able to determine that you're accessing the Internet from within their network. If your ISP is so configured, they'll offer the ability to authenticate to their SMTP server with a password. My ISP does not.
However, MobileMe does provide its own authenticating SMTP server that you should be able to use from anywhere. Try an SMTP server of smtp.mac.com (smtp.me.com will probably also work) with settings of "Use default ports", "Use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)", and "Authentication" by password, your "User Name" the part of your MobileMe ID before the "at" sign, and your password your MobileMe password.
But now I cannot pull-down my MobileMe eMails directly from Apple's Mail when traveling. I can get my [email protected] (not real address) and I can send via my MobileMe from Mail as instructed above; and I can go to MobileMe and yup, my eMails are there; and I can even get those forwarded to my [email protected] account.
But I always could also RECEIVE my [email protected] eMails directly via my VOO.BE account via Mail - now not. Do I have to have the incoming stmp set differently? At home all works - and until 24 hours ago (36 maybe) - I could receive both - but not now...
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Steve traveling in Kobe, Japan\Sunday 14 February 2010

Hi! Well it is strange as I can receive via my VOO.be account; send via my .Mac account; but here in Japan cannot receive via the .Mac account.
I have 2 accounts set-up in Mail; but 4 outgoing servers; but I think at least 1 and maybe 2 don't / haven't worked...
But my problem is now incoming. With connection Doctor I show now 6 different things 3 with green lights and 3 with red:
[email protected] --- red, can't connect with or without SSL checked
VOO Steve eMail --- green
mail.voo.be -- red, cannot connect
smtp.me.com:myname --- green OK
Schulte VOO --- red
smtp.mail.com -- Green - OK
Again, I think I set-up at least 2 outgoing smtp's that don't work / never worked and that might be confusing this. It was only when I got to Japan that the MobileMe mail wouldn't come into Mail - it goes into MobileMe (cloud) fine - and then I ask it to forward to VOO and that comes in - so I'm thankfully not missing eMails but sure is strange--- Why can't I get MobileMe directly into Mail?
You likely need more information / details to solve this-- going to work here now in 2 hours but will try to solve this before I go back to Belgium on Sat!
Thanks for any comments - suggestions. Oh, yes - when I try to change mail.mac.com to smtp.mac.com for "incoming" - it automatically changes back to mail.mac.com... when I hit save.
If I change to mail.me.com (instead of "mac") will that do anything?
Steve
Monday 15 February 2010 - Kobe

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PERSON.PERSON_ID = FND_GLOBAL.EMPLOYEE_ID
Custom security option is "Restrict the people visible to each user using this profile"
I am not able to see the record as expected.
If I Hardcode the person ID "PERSON.PERSON_ID = 13449" with "Restrict the people visible to each user using this profile", I am able to see the record.
If I Hardcode the person ID "PERSON.PERSON_ID = 13449" with "Restrict the people visible to this profile", I am able to see the record after running PERSLM and same is in PER_PERSON_LISTS.
Am I correct in checking with FND_GLOBAL.EMPLOYEE_ID?
(This was mentioned in system administrator guide :
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docs.oracle.com/cd/E18727_01/doc.121/e13509/T2096T2098.htm).
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My original requirement was that all employees belonging to one's Organization should be displayed, and this is working fine with an updated query for the same.
Thanks,
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I didn't mean my reply as a rant! Just welcoming another disabled guy on board. Yes, I do budget - and have enough left over to buy software and hardware for my Mac. The 'government' doesn't pay my electric bill - I do - and I pay $460 a month in rent - and I live in a very nice, unsubsidized handicapped and wheelchair accessible apartment.
You really need to work on your anger issues - and although I, too, believe in an afterlife, I can be happy in life just as I am: I've no legs, so getting around is difficult for me but I don't let that stop me from enjoying life.
I've no family remaining save for an uncle and aunt and some cousins - and they're all in Texas. And, although I, too, was "dumped" by most of my middle-class friends, I have a handful of friends on whom I rely.
I don't believe that suicide is a way out, either. My own step-mother blew her brains out after she had a stroke. She was on massive amounts of antidepressants but she took her own life. That way is not for me.
Loosen up and open up a little - I'm sure that you can find something in common even if it's with others who may be disabled. I do some volunteer work with a couple of agencies in town and find that keeps me going - and keeps me from feeling sorry for myself.
If you need anyone to 'talk' to at anytime, just click on my name and my profile with my email address is public. Email me if you like...
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