Is Public Wi-Fi Safe? What Actually Puts You at Risk

<p>For years, the standard advice was simple: never use public Wi-Fi for anything important. That warning made a lot of sense when most websites sent information in plain text. Today the picture is different. Most of the web now runs over encrypted connections, which removes the biggest danger people used to worry about — but it doesn't make every free hotspot harmless. The risks have shifted, and

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