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<blockquote data-quote="Randy B. Singer" data-source="post: 1710114" data-attributes="member: 190607">A firewall monitors and limits traffic going into and out of your computer.&nbsp; That means that a firewall does nothing more than to keep bad guys from hacking into your computer. (Or, in the case of a reverse firewall, it keeps rogue processes running on your computer from phoning home.)&nbsp; I'm not sure that you have to be at all concerned about that happening at a coffee shop.&nbsp; Bad guys don't tend to go after transitory targets to hack into.&nbsp; For one thing, hacking into a computer takes time.&nbsp; Hackers looking to hack into a computer tend to go after more interesting targets than individual's personal computers.&nbsp; They tend to like to hack into businesses' computers.&nbsp; And they tend to look for Windows computers, which have more well known backdoors. What you have to be worried about at a coffee shop is someone intercepting your Wi-Fi signal or otherwise hacking the public network.&nbsp; A firewall won't help with that in the least.&nbsp; For that you need a VPN (virtual private network.)<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Randy B. Singer, post: 1710114, member: 190607"] A firewall monitors and limits traffic going into and out of your computer. That means that a firewall does nothing more than to keep bad guys from hacking into your computer. (Or, in the case of a reverse firewall, it keeps rogue processes running on your computer from phoning home.) I'm not sure that you have to be at all concerned about that happening at a coffee shop. Bad guys don't tend to go after transitory targets to hack into. For one thing, hacking into a computer takes time. Hackers looking to hack into a computer tend to go after more interesting targets than individual's personal computers. They tend to like to hack into businesses' computers. And they tend to look for Windows computers, which have more well known backdoors. What you have to be worried about at a coffee shop is someone intercepting your Wi-Fi signal or otherwise hacking the public network. A firewall won't help with that in the least. For that you need a VPN (virtual private network.) [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_private_network[/url] [/QUOTE]

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