AirBears UC Berkeley Wireless Network

HP Grant

UC Berkeley was granted 160 HP ProCurve Wireless Access Point 520wl, ProCurve network switches, and funding for two student interns to work on a project funded in part by the HP Applied Mobile Technology in Learning Environments grant initiative. The grant is valued at over $198,000.

Privacy

The AirBears wireless network equipment does no data encryption of any sort. Other users of the wireless net will be able to read data you send or receive unless you take steps to encrypt your own data. For example:

• Avoid reading email with software (such as Eudora) that uses "POP" or "IMAP". A better choice is a secure web-based email system, such as BearMail (https://bearmail.berkeley.edu) for UCLink users.
• Use secure shell (SSH) instead of telnet for interactive logins to shell accounts.
• Do not provide any confidential data to a web form unless the web site uses secure sockets layer (SSL) encryption. The URL for a secure site will begin with https:

Be especially careful with any service that requires a password. Passwords are confidential; be sure the service you're using has a secure way to log on.