Are packets from .NET to SQL server secure?

When I'm getting data from sqlserver using ado.net and a sqldataadapter, are the resultant network traffic packets secure? If I wanted to deploy my objects at a remote site, would I still be safe going straight to my sql server from there or should I build a web service and then auto generate 'remote' versions of my objects that will then communicate to the web service on https?

thanks
pati think you need to encrypt your data using SSL to secure your data transfer...other wise any sniffer prog can get the data...

hth|||You can do the VPN thing too - that's secure, right?