@Carnival-Boy said:

"You really shouldn’t be accessing your banking information or really anything that requires credentials when your on public Wi-Fi."

Why not? Or to put it another way, what are the risks to using HTTPS? How does it fail?

It can only fail if two conditions are met. DNS poisting to move the website, however this would have to be a new website you've never visited before because CA's will not issues the cert for a domain to someone else. Which means the same vulnerability exists when using your home connections. It must be a trusted/known site and be HTTPS.

@JaredBusch said:

@Dashrender said:

An example might be, the inflight WiFi services normally don't allow you to stream Netflix. If you use a VPN that supports Netflix you can bypass the filters the airline put in place and still stream Netflix.

Like the OpenVPN I have set on my Ubiquiti EdgeMax router at the house. So my daughters can watch Netflix while in Japan 😉

LOL

@Reid-Cooper said:

That picture is so large those devices seem like they might be..... life-sized?

snort I read that in Dave Collier's Woody the Woodchuck voice.

Might as well be you!

Good article.