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Originally Posted by jswinden
I was at my doctor's office Tuesday in a very urban area, but the building itself made the cellular coverage/strength really bad--only one bar. Phone worked fine for calls but just wouldn't do anything on data. So even urban areas can have spotty coverage, especially in large buildings made of steel and concrete. Fortunately the doctor office has a WiFi network they allow us to use. Certainly not safe for doing business/banking/buying, but if you want to check the latest weather, news, et cetera then it is okay.
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Of course, you probably logged into your email. (If nothing else, through the automatic downloading of email.)
That's even more compromising than logging into a bank web site - if someone cracks that, they have the keys to your kingdom.
The reality is that there is no such thing as an OK unsecured network. Don't use them. Ever.
If you absolutely *must*, make sure that you disable email fetching/push and get a VPN account. (Note that automatic services will happen in the open until the VPN tunnel is established.)