Peaches Posted November 11, 2009 Report Share Posted November 11, 2009 Google's Free Airport Wi-Fi: Five Ways to Protect YourselfJeff Bertolucci, PC World Public hotspots, which by nature are open and unencrypted, are notoriously insecure. Information you transmit via laptop, smartphone, or gaming device may very well fall into the wrong hands. There are ways to stay safe, however. We asked Edgar Figueroa, executive director of industry trade group the Wi-Fi Alliance, for some hotspot safety tips. They are: 1) Configure your Wi-Fi device to not automatically connect to an open network without your approval. By doing so, you'll be aware when you're connecting to an open Wi-Fi hotspot. "Many devices either come out of the box or are later configured to automatically accept any available Wi-Fi connection," Figueroa says. Auto-configuration is most popular on handsets and some consumer electronics products like gaming devices. For the other 4 tips read at PC World - http://www.pcworld.c...t_yourself.html Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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