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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.

[–] Ok_Magician_3884@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What if I setup a fake wifi and steal people pw?

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

HTTPS, and that wouldn't be a 'fake wifi' that'd just be a wifi AP that you own.

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