How to Prevent Theft Online

One of my favorite pastimes I like to do inknow he is chatting online with his wife.
Starbucks is eavesdropping on everybody'sWhat if you are transmitting important
conversation online. Since Starbucks offers freeinformation over an unsecured connection and I
internet access, everybody will be busy sippinghappen to stumble upon it? How to prevent a
their coffee and texting messages with theirthief like me that is snooping what is in the air?
devices. None of these coffee drinkers reallyThe easiest and fastest way on how to prevent
know how vulnerable they are and how totheft online is to get yourself a VPN, short for
protect themselves from theft online like me.Virtual Private Network. VPN creates a secure
I turn on my Mac and run an application to collectnetwork by encrypting your data between you
data over the wireless network. Then I go queueand your destination site over a public network
up for my coffee. By the time I am back, I havesuch as the internet. There are many flavors of
collected enough data for me to read. Most ofsecurity standard known as protocols. The
the data are instant messaging conversations.commonly used protocols are IPsec, L2TP, and
Sometimes I do intercept email and photos.SSL/TLS. These VPNs can be configured for use
If I find something interesting about ain PDA such as iPhone too. For the highest
conversation, I will lift my head up and try tosecurity, use SSL/TLS or sometime also label as
identify who the person is. One time, my coffeeSSL VPN.
buddy says, "Give him another ten minutes andGet yourself familiar with VPN technologies today,
we can leave." I subconsciously reply saying,ask for a trial package from your provider and
"Take his time, we can leave once he is donestart learning how to prevent theft online.
with his wife." He looks up to me and asks how I