Using public Wi-Fi - a Smashing Security splinter
Smashing Security
Graham Cluley
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2017
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The tricky problem of public Wi-Fi hotspots.
In this special "splinter" episode (or should it be a "shard"?) regular hosts Graham Cluley, Carole Theriault and Vanja Svajcer discuss, and offer some advice and tips for computer users.
SHOW NOTES:
- VPN comparison chart
- The dangers of public Wi-Fi - and crazy things people do to use it
- Free open WiFi suspected in Facebook hack of Missouri state representatives
- Finally! Yahoo Mail to turn on SSL by default in 2014
- 150 best Wi-Fi names for your router
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Special Guest: Vanja Švajcer.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, here's a good one. |
| 0:01.0 | Shut your fucking dog up. |
| 0:02.4 | Ooh. |
| 0:03.3 | Well, we'll probably have to bleep that out. |
| 0:06.4 | Really? |
| 0:09.0 | Smashing security. |
| 0:14.7 | Splinter episode. |
| 0:16.0 | Using public Wi-Fi with Carol Terry O. |
| 0:19.2 | Van Yer Schweitzere and Cluley. |
| 0:22.2 | Hello everybody and welcome to another edition of Smashing Security with me, Graham Cluley and my two |
| 0:27.9 | buddies, Coral Terrio and Vanier Schweitzer. It's a special Splinter episode today where we're |
| 0:33.8 | going to be talking about ways in which you can protect yourself online and stay more secure. |
| 0:38.6 | And the topic today, chaps, is using public Wi-Fi. How can we do it in a safer way? |
| 0:44.5 | What's your experience been of using Wi-Fi out in the amongst the great unwashed public? |
| 0:50.3 | If the question is, is it safe, I would say no. But is it convenient? Definitely, yes. So I guess we have to find a way to make it safer if it's open for everybody. Yeah, because it's pretty much ubiquitous now, isn't it? Everywhere you go pretty much, it feels like you can get on the Wi-Fi. Many organizations are providing Wi-Fi. Some people in their homes are |
| 1:12.2 | providing access to their Wi-Fi and making it sort of freely available for anyone who's wandering |
| 1:17.6 | past to jump onto their Wi-Fi and use part of their internet connection as well. So I think |
| 1:23.2 | convenience wins. We all love the convenience, but security is where we begin to get a little bit concerned. |
| 1:29.0 | So what are the concerns regarding public Wi-Fi? One of the ones which I think would worry me is, can this Wi-Fi hotspot really be trusted? |
| 1:42.2 | So I might be in a cafe, for instance. And I look in my little list of |
| 1:46.8 | available wireless networks, and it may not instantly be obvious which wireless network I'm |
| 1:52.1 | supposed to jump on. And what if you do jump on it? So say you see one and then you look up on |
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