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

Can't speak to mobile device, but for a laptop, recently started using this program so I'm not an expert, but have been impressed so far.

Program is called Portmaster, you will have to Google it up.

It basically shuts down everything and you have to manually open up what you want, but interface is real easy/intuitive. Took me a bit to figure it all out, but once I did loving it now.

Stumbled across it on a YouTuber that I like that does cyber security and he did a video on it. This will essentially lock down your laptop from anyone doing anything.