Safe WiFi Hotspot
Looking to be on the road for a few months at a time and need to have access to a safe, secure WiFi to handle financial transactions, campground bookings etc. via the internet using my laptop and sma...
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westernrvparkowner wrote:
If you are on a site where the address is HTTPS: you are on a secure site.
This is not always a guarantee of security. The initial logon may be SSL, but you can be passed to a non-secure connection after the logon process. Not so much with banks and other financial institutions, they generally maintain an SSL connection even if they pass you to another web site. But many others drop the SSL after you login, even some health care providers.
That said your connection cannot be snooped if you are on any Wifi or hotspot that uses a PSK key. Even a common key that anyone can use is safe because the key forces the encryption on your connection, and that encryption is specific to your connection.
