Staying anonymous on a public WiFi using Orbot - Android

Well there are alot of free WiFi around town — while having your coffee at a restaurant or your favorite hotel and well let’s say most people like free stuff and free stuff comes with it’s challenges.

Free WiFi attract various kind of people, students, people who come to hangout and have fun and well there are the those specific people who like watching private data and collect them for malicious intentions.

Imagine whatever you are surfing through the internet is seen by someone else. All your images, urls you visit and all he wants to capture. All these​ performed by tools like Morpheus, Urlsnarf, Driftnet and other Kali tools.

Solutions

You have been introduced to Virtual Private Network (VPN) but is it that safe? Well from the makers of the most used browser for secure connection Tor Browser, here is Orbot for Android. Orbot is an application that allows mobile phone users to access the web, instant messaging and email without being monitored or blocked by their mobile internet service provider.

For extra security browse using Orfox.

There you have it. Whenever you’re about to connect to a public WiFi remember you are being watched and remember security starts with you.

For more info :

https://www.torproject.org/docs/android.html.en

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.torproject.android