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Public WiFi Safety: What Really Happens to Your Data

First, the part that's better than the headlines say Most of the internet is encrypted now. When a site shows the padlock in the address bar, the traffic between you and that site is scrambled end to end. Banking sites, email providers, social media, shopping: all encrypted. Someone sitting in ...

Do You Need a VPN? What VPNs Actually Do (and Don’t)

What a VPN really does When you connect to a VPN, your device opens an encrypted connection to a server run by the VPN provider. All your traffic travels through that tunnel. To anyone between you and the server (the coffee shop's network, your ISP) your traffic is unreadable. Websites ...