Be careful if you connect to public WiFi

[Zaka1221]

I don't think there's anything wrong with using public Wi-Fi. The most important thing is the device and what's on it that you connect to public Wi-Fi. If you have a wallet or other sensitive data on it, then yes, you shouldn't use it.

 However, if you have a phone that doesn't have a wallet or anything else that could be stolen, then I don't see anything wrong with using Wi-Fi

 Many cities have public Wi-Fi, and you can log in using your phone number


I've come across public wifi without authorization a couple of times, and I prefer to stay away from them

Bro, you said If we don't have crypto wallet  "don't see anything wrong with using Wi-Fi." It's a complete failure to understand the security operation. You have your email, passwords, credentials even though we don't have wallet on that phone, but hacker can steal our credentials and use them for other means. And you are saying to connect with public WiFi using your phone number this is how our data gets targeted phishing attempts. I know a little bit about cyber security and i will suggest never use your credentials on public WiFi and not using this type of internet. Security is not just about wallet, our face, our identity still hold much more important things than wallet.

[Davidvictorson]

If you often visiting cafe to hanging around with your friends, you should be careful using public WiFi. We don't know how the cafe set the security for their customers but I heard the cafe can trace their customers activity while connecting to the WiFi.

I know this from conversation with my cousin when I meet him few days ago, he told me that many cafe's offers free WiFi to attract customers visiting their place. But some local cafe or public service places use this chance to gets the internet history of their customers, even they can get the log of banking credentials of their customers.

If you use free WiFi from a cafe or local store or hotel, you should not login to your mobile banking app but if you really need to login to your mobile banking app, make sure you use data connection from your phone to avoids the hacking.

Your security will be your responsibility so make sure that you can be careful if you connect to public WiFi and don't login to anything personal.

PS: I am sorry if this is not the right board. Please tell me and I will move it to the right one.

You are absolutely correct.
Any WiFi that is not from your personal home should be designated a high risk.
While in fact of the these free public WiFi may not access your data etc but the threat is still very real.
There have been too many sad stories about it.
Do not be a statistic.

[batang_bitcoin]

You are absolutely correct.
Any WiFi that is not from your personal home should be designated a high risk.
While in fact of the these free public WiFi may not access your data etc but the threat is still very real.
There have been too many sad stories about it.
Do not be a statistic.

Even if I am in total desperation that I have to connect to the internet, I'll avoid connecting to the public wifi connections. I'll beg for money to buy myself a data connection than to do it with the free one. If that's me in a situation that I have to contact through the internet or needs an access to do a thing or two. I've got a personal experience of it once before and I am not going to do it ever again. I've felt that I was under in a surveillance just after connecting to one and yet that connection was terrible and slow. Fortunately, nothing bad happened and that old phone of mine was broken already since it happened years ago.

[Popkon6]

Those who do not pay attention to these small things are the ones who are mainly in danger, because if your important device gets hacked, your information will be leaked and if your confidential information is stolen, you will definitely face danger. So you should definitely be careful about all these things.

Your security will be your responsibility so make sure that you can be careful if you connect to public WiFi and don't login to anything personal.

I do not connect to any external network, and although I personally use the internet. However, I find the free WiFi available in the hotel restaurants and various cafes and tourist attractions to be definitely dangerous. Because they seem to have set up a trap for danger, otherwise why do they distribute free WiFi in public places?
However, I have seen posters on the walls in the city with a scanner (QR Code) for the WiFi password. I have noticed this and have prevented all my friends from connecting to this WiFi, connecting to WiFi in this locality is definitely risky because everyone has confidential information in their mobile devices.

[kawetsriyanto]

This is really a good reminder to many people who always find free Wi-Fi as a reason to visit some Cafe. I know someone that always visit places that offers free Wi-Fi and buy their stuffs and when they don’t offer Wi-Fi then he’s not going to get anything from that store.

I also have some friends that they do the same way. I quite often remind them to be careful with public WiFi. I don't know whether they follow my suggestion or not.
Well, at least we have tried to remind them!

After going through this post and read how risky it can’t be with this free Wi-Fi and how they can easily gain access through our internet activities, then I bring it to his notice that how easily things can be exposed when using free Wi-Fi and now he knowns and his security conscious right now about using free Wi-Fi.

You've done a great job that your friend has been aware of the big risk of the public WiFi. Actually, he can google himself to know the risk of free WiFi or public WiFi. But some people don't really care about it if they don't see the cases themselves. Even worse, some people just realize after they are experiencing it themselves.

People will go so far just to take anything from others, the world is just a cruel place to be and the more we keep finding out how the world is dangerous the more we get to know deeper and be very conscious on minor things we take for granted.

In this world, we must be careful in any where.
Criminal acts can happen anymore whenever the bad people see the opportunity.
So, we must be careful with whatever we are doing.

[suhadi88]

Bro, you said If we don't have crypto wallet  "don't see anything wrong with using Wi-Fi." It's a complete failure to understand the security operation. You have your email, passwords, credentials even though we don't have wallet on that phone, but hacker can steal our credentials and use them for other means. And you are saying to connect with public WiFi using your phone number this is how our data gets targeted phishing attempts. I know a little bit about cyber security and i will suggest never use your credentials on public WiFi and not using this type of internet. Security is not just about wallet, our face, our identity still hold much more important things than wallet.

You’re right Zaka1221, I agree that they are now looking for victims—essentially seeking company for when they get jailed—by sending transactions or linking TxHash to their malicious addresses. We might be completely in the dark, but an investigation could escalate, eventually leading to formal suspect status... and that becomes a real hassle.

I share your view on the need for wisdom and caution regarding usage; we shouldn't do everything on a single device—browsing, making calls, and handling BTC trading and accumulation all in one place.