![]() ![]() If you have nothing to hide, then please send me your primary email address alongside the corresponding password to dominic at how-hard-can-it.be ![]() If that’s the case, then the following shouldn’t really be a problem for you. Sure, you might dismiss these privacy concerns as “a concept from the last millennium” that is “no longer applicable to the new age” and you “have nothing to hide”. How could you be sure that the main additional threat to privacy were again physical shoulder surfers? There was nothing inside the WiFi hotspot snooping on your every Google search, social network visit, or video binge-watching? That there wasn’t a little minion creating a meticulous log of you. How could you be sure that the main additional security threat to worry about were physical shoulder surfers? That there was nothing inside the WiFi hotspot tampering with your connection? Sending you to dodgy pages that looked just like the real ones but were actually just phishing for your personal information?Įver noticed some sites or services being unavailable or blocked when connecting to a WiFi hotspot? That’s when the WiFi hotspot provider is effectively tampering with your connection (for reasons that can be absolutely legitimate).īut even with security being rock solid and no one tampering with your connection - how comfortable were you with the privacy offered by the WiFi hotspot? The last time you connected to a WiFi hotspot that you didn’t own or control - how comfortable were you with the security offered by the WiFi hotspot? But is that really all you’re getting?! Is there any hidden baggage? Things you didn’t ask for or maybe never wanted but got anyways? So, for a fee - or sometimes nothing at all - you’re getting back online. ![]() And the slightly intriguingly sounding follow up question “Why are you asking in the first place…?!”! If you’re like me, the most likely answer is “Well, duh! - I need to get back online!”. WiFi Hotspots and Unsolicited BaggageĮver used a WiFi hotspot such as ubiquitously found in coffee shops, hotels, or conference venues around the globe? Reclaim some lost privacy and security by using a fully automated OpenVPN server solution in AWS! Readily available as a one-stop Terraform module on GitHub. ![]()
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