Judge public Wi-Fi honestly
Use a café network without wondering what you have exposed.
Sites seal what you send before it leaves your device, so a stranger on the café network cannot read your banking.
The risk left is the network itself. Anyone can set one up and name it after the café.
Key points
- The risk is joining a network somebody else set up
- What you send is sealed by the site itself, on any network
What to remember
- The card by the register settles it.
- Ask which network is theirs. Then stop the phone rejoining alone.
Try this
On your own phone, find a café network and turn off its automatic joining.
Practice: Judge public Wi-Fi honestly. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.