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Nomads, while you’re traveling around, how do you protect yourself on public WiFi? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by jamesallen18181@alien.top to c/digitalnomad@expats.zone

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I’ve been facing this issue for some time because I always have to connect to public WiFi in hotels, Starbucks and airports to open some confidential apps as bank accounts, password manager, etc. and I was wondering here what do other nomads do to protect themselves in this scenario?

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[–] South-Beautiful-5135@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

VPN is just shifting the question “Do I trust the person who operates the WiFi” to “Do I trust the person who operates the VPN”. Therefore, it is mostly bullshit.

And even then, most traffic is encrypted now anyways. So using a VPN is more like using two condoms.

[–] Yung-Split@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Só operate your own vpn. Got it

[–] stocklogic@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Avast scans the wifi for security issues.