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

submitted 9 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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[–] petrichorax@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (14 children)

Cybersecurity guy here: You're fine. It's not a big deal, the danger is vastly overhyped to sell VPN services.

[–] hazzdawg@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Content writing here. I'm guilty of overhyping the danger to sell VPN services. I always kinda assumed it was overblown but never really knew for sure or to what extent. Thanks for the confirmation.

[–] thekwoka@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

I'm guilty of overhyping the danger to sell VPN services

What I dislike the most is the "Your ISP can see everywhere you go and everything you do! protect yourself with our VPN!"

But they forget the whole "And then WE can see everywhere you go and everything you do!"

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