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| Above, making use of a Sasebo hotel's Wi-Fi. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
It is tempting to use the free Wi-Fi that airports, restaurants, train stations, hotels and any other public facilities offer while traveling.
But there are some dangers lurking about. Hackers will stop at nothing to hack into your computer to get your passwords or other sensitive things you have stored.
Fortunately, the New York Times has an article on "How Not to Pay the Price for Free Wi-Fi" with four important rules on keeping your device and personal information safe.
They start with:
Part of globe-trotting nowadays is flitting from one free Wi-Fi network to the next. From hotel lobby to coffee shop to subway platform to park, each time we join a public network we put our personal information and privacy at risk. Yet few travelers are concerned enough to turn down free Wi-Fi. Rather, many of us hastily give away an email address in exchange for 15 minutes of free airport Internet access.
So how to feed your addiction while also safeguarding your passwords and privacy? If you’re not going to abstain (and who is these days?), here are four rules for staying connected and (reasonably) safe while traveling.To read the article and see the four rules, go here.
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