Be careful if you connect to public WiFi

[POPOLUV]

Chatting with friends at coffee shops and when free WiFi is provided in various restaurants and hotels, it is risky for many. Especially those who use public WiFi from the bank's app or from various payment apps, many people are sitting there to steal data. If you can sit in a shop for hours using public WiFi, then of course it is risky, so we have to be very careful about this issue. Especially when paying online, we should not use public WiFi, but it is very good to use our own data. Public WiFi is always risky, so every user has to be careful, otherwise they can be a victim of fraud at any time.

I agree that connecting to public WiFi is very risky, now I have a question to ask regarding this issue of WiFi. What about those countries that use general WiFi should we also avoid using them while making transaction? Although we don't have public WiFi here in my country, each and everyone of us here make used of our own personal data so I'm wondering if those countries that has public WiFi is safe or they are at risk I would like to know or does it mean the risk is only for those that go around looking for where they can get free WiFi?

Any WiFi connection outside your family or friends should be thoroughly investigated before connecting your phone with it but for those countries that use general WiFi, i believe that such WiFi is provided free to serva the public and it will be monitor from not falling into a wrong hands and out side such reason, I'm advising anyone that might come across this discussion here to be very careful when rushing to connect to any WiFi that is not password because they can purposely keep a WiFi without password for people to connect with and immediately you are connected to such free WiFi, your phone will start malfunctioning because you just connected to a virus that will deny access to your phone.

[Ronsbit]

Its always risky to use public WiFi and worse if its anonymous i.e. we don't know who is providing an open WiFi in public place. Since we don't know the owner, we also don't know the intent behind offering a free WiFi in public place. These days mobile data is very much in range of majority of people and for security of your financial assets residing on your phone, always use mobile data or secure WiFi. We must avoid every WiFi which is freely available and everyone can easily connect to it.     

For the fact that you don't know and have idea who put up the public WiFi,  it's enough reasons for you not to connect to it because you do not know the true intentions of whomever set it up. It just might be a bait for you to fall into just because it is free of charge. Even government WiFi too is not safe. But if you choose to make use of it, avoid opening some sensitive Apps such as your bank app, notepad where you store sensitive information,  maybe picture's or videos which might also contain sensitive information. Always make sure you have data for browsing because sometimes you might get tempted to use it when you have an emergency which requires you to go online. Sometimes also to update Apps or your phone android version because such consumes data and in so doing you don't know what might be their target and you might just fall victim of their planned act.

[Stable090]

Any WiFi connection outside your family or friends should be thoroughly investigated before connecting your phone with it but for those countries that use general WiFi

Even family and friends are suppose to be investigated before you make use of their wifi. You are not suppose to trust all your friends just like that, you should trust only the ones you know they not going to harm you. Some people can do anything just to make money, they don’t care if you people are friend. I don’t make use of public wifi like that because of risk, mobile data isnt that expensive in my country here, so I can afford to buy mobile data always, I don’t really need any public Wi-Fi. Some people just like making use of free things, they don’t even consider the risk in it, if it’s free they going to use it.

[ChocolateBitcoinK]

Chatting with friends at coffee shops and when free WiFi is provided in various restaurants and hotels, it is risky for many. Especially those who use public WiFi from the bank's app or from various payment apps, many people are sitting there to steal data. If you can sit in a shop for hours using public WiFi, then of course it is risky, so we have to be very careful about this issue. Especially when paying online, we should not use public WiFi, but it is very good to use our own data. Public WiFi is always risky, so every user has to be careful, otherwise they can be a victim of fraud at any time.

I agree that connecting to public WiFi is very risky, now I have a question to ask regarding this issue of WiFi. What about those countries that use general WiFi should we also avoid using them while making transaction? Although we don't have public WiFi here in my country, each and everyone of us here make used of our own personal data so I'm wondering if those countries that has public WiFi is safe or they are at risk I would like to know or does it mean the risk is only for those that go around looking for where they can get free WiFi?

Any WiFi connection outside your family or friends should be thoroughly investigated before connecting your phone with it but for those countries that use general WiFi, i believe that such WiFi is provided free to serva the public and it will be monitor from not falling into a wrong hands and out side such reason, I'm advising anyone that might come across this discussion here to be very careful when rushing to connect to any WiFi that is not password because they can purposely keep a WiFi without password for people to connect with and immediately you are connected to such free WiFi, your phone will start malfunctioning because you just connected to a virus that will deny access to your phone.

It is not impossible that this type of problem can arise, this is true in the current reality. Through this, various attacks are attempted, personal information theft, phishing and many more. We can also learn from movies about these types of things, I have seen such incidents in many movies, although they are movies, but they exist in reality too, so it is always necessary to be careful. It is best to avoid public Wi-Fi when logging into banking or important accounts. Public Wi-Fi can be convenient, for daily work, but at the same time, due to this type of wifi, your personal information, your bank information and your device's wallet can be hacked, so use tow device and it is always better to keep the financial device separate and avoid giving any kind of public Wi-Fi connection to that device, then it will be better safe.

[Hazink]

Any WiFi connection outside your family or friends should be thoroughly investigated before connecting your phone with it but for those countries that use general WiFi, i believe that such WiFi is provided free to serva the public and it will be monitor from not falling into a wrong hands and out side such reason, I'm advising anyone that might come across this discussion here to be very careful when rushing to connect to any WiFi that is not password because they can purposely keep a WiFi without password for people to connect with and immediately you are connected to such free WiFi, your phone will start malfunctioning because you just connected to a virus that will deny access to your phone.

Home WiFi, public or whatever Wi-Fi you are using, as long as there are more people who have access to it other than you. You should be extremely careful with how advanced technology is getting nowadays. We can't tell to what length they can do damage to your gadgets through that access, as for free Wi-Fi, some phones if it's not turned off each time they walk close to area where Wi-Fi is on and not protected it will automatically connect itself which is the kind of danger some people face without even knowing.

[TokenTikas]

as for free Wi-Fi, some phones if it's not turned off each time they walk close to area where Wi-Fi is on and not protected it will automatically connect itself which is the kind of danger some people face without even knowing.

Free (WiFi) automatically connect when you enter their specific area if your phone has (WiFi) One. Suppose you have previously used a free (WiFi) and connected to it, but you could not go to that free (WiFi) area for a few days, so you could not connect.

Later, you went to that free (WiFi) area for some work and on the other hand, you did not know that you were automatically connected because your mobile phone has (WiFi) One. But your phone data has started to be stolen by automatically connecting. Although it seems like a coincidence, it can happen like this, so it is necessary to keep the (WiFi) section of the mobile phone turned off at all times and it is better to turn off (WiFi) after using it when necessary.