Thursday, January 11, 2007
Do hotel networks track your surfing?
Software developer Michael Herf was staying at a hotel and noticed that the hotel network was inserting ads and apparently tracking which web pages were viewed.
This could be bad. Imagine that you were on a business trip and someone noticed that you'd looked up a company's financials and then gone to a site about merger and acquisition law.
The answer is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) back to your home office.
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This could be bad. Imagine that you were on a business trip and someone noticed that you'd looked up a company's financials and then gone to a site about merger and acquisition law.
The answer is to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) back to your home office.
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