Look at the URL bar in your browser. Do you see that little lock symbol on the left? That means that traffic on this site is encrypted in transit from WIRED’s servers to your browser and back. That encryption is enabled by what’s knowns as Hypertext Transfer Protocol, with the ‘S’ standing for Secure. The most important thing to know about HTTPS, though, is that it obviates most of the attacks that (rightly) scared you off of public Wi-Fi in the first place.
there are plenty of things you can do to protect yourself, starting with using a virtual private network.
Even better than a VPN, especially if you have an unlimited data plan: Use your smartphone as a hotspot.
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