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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.

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

What you really need to be careful of: that your computer isn’t accessible via Finder (Mac) or Explorer (Windows) file shares. This is where someone could browse your computer’s files, grab personal docs and even grab cookies from your browser for hijacking your (banking) sessions.

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