December 2006
Beginner to intermediate
384 pages
10h 39m
English
Okay, so you never thought you would actually need to use a hotspot when you suddenly find that you need to take a cross-country trip or go to visit family for a week and, to your horror, discover that they do not have broadband access in their home. We discuss how to deal with this so-called family of yours later, but in the mean time, you need to find a hotspot and reconnect.
Unfortunately, many people start using hotspots without advanced planning, which leaves them extremely vulnerable. Hotspots are convenient and kind of cool in a nerdy way, but you must protect yourself if you are going to use what is, by design, a very open and unsecure medium. Unlike a home or business network, a hotspot is ...