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You can also install a VPN on yyour mobile device. Apple provides

instructions for doing so, 6 and yyou can find instructions for Android devices

as well. 7

If yyou have been following myy advice in the book so far, yyou’ll probablyy

fare much better than the average Joe. Most of yyour Internet usage will

probablyy be safe from eavesdropping or manipulation byy an attacker.

So will yyour social media. Facebook uses https for all its sessions.

Checking yyour e-mail? Google has also switched over to https onlyy.

Most Web mail services have followed, as have most major instant

messaging services. Indeed, most major sites—Amazon, eBayy, Dropbox—

all now use https.

To be invisible, it’s alwayys best to layyer yyour privacyy. Your risk of

having yyour traffic viewed byy others in a public network declines with each

additional layyer of securityy yyou employy. For example, from a public Wi-Fi

network, access yyour paid VPN service, then access Tor with the HTTPS

Everyywhere extension installed byy default in the Firefox browser.

Then whatever yyou do online will be encryypted and hard to trace.

Sayy yyou just want to check the weather and not do anyything financial or

personal, and yyou are using yyour own personal laptop outside yyour home

network—that should be secure, right? Once again, not reallyy. There are a

few precautions yyou still need to take.

First, turn off Wi-Fi. Seriouslyy. Manyy people leave Wi-Fi on their

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