Here's why you shouldn't use public Wi-Fi

Public Wi-Fi hotspots might seem like a convenience, but they can also be a threat to your privacy. One of the most famous hackers in the United States and author of the book "The Art of Invisibility" explains why you might want to think twice before connecting.

[ericbazinga]

Also, public Wi-Fi is slow, and most public Wi-Fi hotspots nowadays are one of those annoying TWC hotspots where you have to have a TWC account in order to use the hotspot.

[anb]

Whenever I find a free public wifi I resume all the torrents on my phone... I make sure I download as much as I can.. So I don't have to waste my own data.. 😀

[DonAngeloGaming]

Watching this at the airport's wifi

[soeskavion]

I love Kevin's presentations here. Can you have him talk about the growing problems of bluetooth vulnerabilities, and javascript malware?

[varyill]

Good thing I have a unlimited data plan for my phone, no public wifi needed

[kurtnickgonzales]

it depends when public wifi you connect is trusted like Starbucks McDonald and etc

[j.whiting]

Great to see Mitnick again after all these years. Looks like he's ageing well.

[RodolfoSandovalRudy]

Most campus and location deal with this already with have a login for people or a encryption, just don't use random free wifi access

[syedibrahimibnsyedali]

i bet tech insider will have 1 million subscribers till the end of 2017

[Soft_Machine]

Good thing my phone has it's own hotspot

[Михаил-фэп]

I dont have any bank account or important photos. There's only paper porn in my smartphones and laptops. Lol

[friechupinferno]

Let's blame the person who has made the public wifi and track who ever stole some Unpermitted info.

[hayoonr]

I never use my devices in urban areas anymore. Once I went camping in so somewhere four hours from my home and it completley damaged my Ipad. I couldnt do anything, I couldnt even turn it on. Lucky I had a spare one :)

[zeroday]

Soooo how to protect ourselves from any threat from public WiFi??

For both computer& smartphone

[brianaguirre]

Not even, theres alot of vpn services that are actually phone. Like i use free service on my phone and computer

[Discusser]

Wait vpn isn't free? I got 2 different vpns for free.

[dummonkey]

I never used internet anyway all I do is watch YouTube I don't use Wi-Fi on always turning it off every time I turn on my phone I don't download I don't upload I don't do anything that requires Wi-Fi I have no credit cards on my phone no information that is useful to anybody

[nb]

For people who don’t understand: Using public WiFi is like telling your life story to a prostitute

[CPTMP]

Use public WiFi and don't be afraid of anything at least on my phone Google automatically establishes VPN connection

[justincui]

its also illegal to connect to unsecured wifi