Public Wifi

Would you want someone looking over your shoulder and watching everything on your screen or knowing every keystroke you make on your keyboard. No I am not a guy sitting in my place with a tin foil hat. But this is what can happen if you use public wifi.

No they are not literally watching you. But it only takes that one guy or gal in the coffee shop sitting there sipping their mocha frapa iced coffee. Yeah, that person you see once in a while at your local caffeine dispensary. They can be monitoring everything. Im not going to get into all the voodoo magic that happens but public wifi is like a public pool. Your sharing the water. Your sharing the fun. In order to make up for every device with all possible settings or abilities they have to set the wifi hot spot to wide open. So just like a public pool everyone can see everything. What you normally keep in private they can see because its just wide open. So the guy with the goggles swimming across the bottom can see all the things in the water floating.

Now in a perfect world people will leave each other alone, mind their own business and world peace is here. Well we don’t live in that world. And if you log into your bank to check your balance you can just expect that everyone else saw your user name and password and now they have access to your funds. The scary part is that it really is just that easy in open public wifi. No, not every wifi is that wide open but are you willing to take that risk.

So a good practice is to just to do simple and things you don’t mind sharing in a open public wifi. Check Youtube and watch silly videos. Browse news sites. Just dont use anything that will require you to use a username and password. No Facebook, banking, Amazon, Ebay, and nothing that could let someone into your personal things or life.

Things do get a little safer when you use a secure connection like https in your URL bar vice the http. I will save that one for another day. I just wanted you all to be aware of the dangers of using open public wifi.