Wireless internet and "hotspots"

[erbbysam]

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How safe is it to use a wireless hotspot? After all, we are cash players using passwords to get into our online cardrooms.


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Depends how paranoid you are but imo you're pretty safe as long as your connection is encrypted (like all major poker sites are that I know of). Definitely avoid non-encrypted password exchanges though (websites without the yellow bar that you enter your password into can be intercepted fairly easily).

[jjshabado]

Starbucks is free? Last time I tried to use it (8-12 months ago) it wasn't free. You had to pay something like 7 bucks for the day or 15/month for unlimited access.

[DLKeeper1]

I've never tried to use it...I just looked it up and I think you're right it isn't free.

[BigPoppa]

Starbucks used to be free. Now you have to sign up through T-Mobile's hotspot program.



Lots of other places now have free wifi (Krystal's, the library, etc), but most places with free wifi have nanny-filters so you can't do bad things like gamble.