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Perils of public internet

Perils of public internet

From the course: CompTIA IT Fundamentals (FC0-U61) Cert Prep 2: Files and Applications, Networking, and Security

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Perils of public internet

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- People move, people compute. People get on the Internet wherever they can find Wi-Fi and check email and social media, like Facebook or Twitter. People observe the news, check the traffic, check the weather. This is how we roll. For the most part, people use their private devices: smartphone, tablet, laptop. The way to protect an individual in such a public venue is HTTPS, the hypertext transport protocol with the addition of secure protocols such as SSL and TLS, enables you to connect to a website or other Internet server for email and social media, for example, with some surety that the communication won't be crackable. When you set up the email client on a portable device, you have an option to insist the connection with your email server use encryption. Most clients do this today by default. Look at this screenshot of Mozilla Thunderbird, an excellent free email client. When setting up a new account, it defaults to…

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