"Fast, free Wi-Fi sounds handy, and it is, but we’ve written about the
potential problems with open Wi-Fi hotspots several times before.
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One handy countermeasure is to use a VPN, short for Virtual Private Network.
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Of course, many free Wi-Fi networks make you jump through some sort of
simple authentication process first, directing you to what’s called a
captive portal – a special web page that pops up in place of the site
you’re trying to visit.
Captive portals may ask you to accept various terms and conditions, show
you a few ads, or ask you for some sort of identifier to track your usage.
The latter is common in hotels, often to differentiate between paying
guests, day visitors attending a conference, and unentitled passers-by.
In other words, even if you want to use a VPN, you typically need to
spend a short while online with your network shields down, until you can
get past the captive portal.
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Here’s what happened in my hotel during my brief “shields down” period:"
Id-SIRTII/CC has the main duty to socialize with stake holders related to IT Security, to do an early monitoring and detection, give an early warning against threats to telecommunication networks from both inside and outside country, particularly in the security measures of network utilization, creating/performing/developing log files and statistics of Indonesian’s internet security.
