Using public Wi-Fi safely
Learn the different types of free Wi-Fi available and how to manage the risks of using them.
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You’re meeting a friend at your local café. While you wait for them, you decide to catch up with a few things on your phone. In two taps, you’ve joined the café’s Wi-Fi and off you go. You check your emails, pay a bill and are just browsing your favourite shopping site when your friend arrives.
The café offers free high-speed Wi-Fi – like so many other public spaces nowadays. With it, we can stay connected when we’re out and about. But it does have some risks.
In this lesson, we’ll help you to understand the types of free Wi-Fi available. We’ll show you the risks of using them and how you can manage these risks.
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