Lee, I am sure glad Sandy ask this question and all the follow up information….
I am very interested and grateful you are willing to help us… First, to get TO your VPN and your in a hotel don’t you have to “logon” using their network BEFORE you can get to your VPN? When traveling we try to stay at the Drury Inn’s, great service and they have their Wi-Fi open, no passwords. If there are no Drury hotels available we then use Hampton or Hilton and with them you have to enter the password EVERY day with EVERY devise…drives me crazy and I complain frequently to corporate..they don’t seem to care what I feel. You have settled into the room and are ready to get on the web, to get to a Hampton Wi-Fi you have to give the password which is where the article says the hackers can get to you… How do you avoid this with a VPN? Does the VPN appear as an icon on your desktop and you use it to log on? Maybe this would keep you safe? I would appreciate you walking us through the steps to keep your devices safe and I assume you can use the VPN for the iPhone and iPad? Thanks once again for your help. John > On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:37 AM, Bill Rising <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On Jan 21, 2016, at 11:27, Lee Larson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Jan 21, 2016, at 9:56 AM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hotels and Airports (often coffee shops, bookstores, libraries, etc etc.) >>> are so open to skilled hackers, their sites can be compromised & expose all >>> their guest devices…bummer. >>> >>> This is why when I travel I use my own Mi-Fi’s rather than the >>> establishment's…so many horror stories that I wanted to stay away from >>> potential sources of pain. >> >> I’ve long used a VPN whenever I’m on open WiFi. > > Which VPN software do you use? > > Bill_______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: [email protected] > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/> _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
