If You Must Throw Caution to the Winds and Use That Public Wi-Fi Network
There’s always something to spoil your free fun. The one fun thing that’s available for free – a public Wi-Fi network at a coffee shop or a train station – that you’ve always enjoyed making use of, the spoilsports have to always warn you about it.
Everyone has to tell you that these things aren’t safe and that there can be all kinds of malware that the jump from one computer to the next over such a network.
Not only do people just idly browse the Internet when on a public Wi-Fi network, they even do stuff that’s supposed to be private or personal – their banking, buying stuff over the Internet, their taxes.
Now no one’s going to ever listen to advice on how they are never to do this. If something seems harmless on the surface, people are going to do it no matter what.
So here are a few tips on how best to secure yourself if you do find yourself unable to resist the temptation of the public Wi-Fi network.
There are nearly 100,000 free Wi-Fi hotspots around the country. When you do anything on such a network, your laptop sends out a wireless signal with all of that data right there.
Both the router that enables the hotspot and any spying person can pick up that signal. Coffee shops could provide an encrypted signal; but that would mean having to help customers connect; and no coffee shop wants to be burdened with tech support. So basically, hotspots offer no security whatsoever. Read the rest of this entry →
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