Isn’t public Wi-Fi great? If you’re having a tea or coffee in a cafe or restaurant you can check your emails and social media.
If you’re waiting for a flight what better way to pass the time than logging onto your favourite website, checking your bank account or even doing a bit of online shopping? And you don’t have to pay a penny or cent. It’s free and you’re not eating into your data allowance.
Except there’s a problem. Public Wi-Fi is notoriously insecure. Data that travels over a public hotspot network is rarely encrypted. This means that every time you use public Wi-Fi, anybody who is looking can see everything you are doing. They can see the passwords you use, your email address, your name and physical address, phone numbers and any other type of personal information that you might happen to enter into a website. They can certainly see the websites you are visiting.
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