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Like I said before, I'm just frightened that someone could retrieve logins or attack my laptop to retrieve valueble files. I guess the best way to be safe is to just use the Wi-Fi network for normal web browsing, my phone to check mail/facebook etc and pentest my own laptop before I set-up a connection with that Wi-Fi network. What do you think?

Well I live in the Netherlands and the data sim prepaid pricing is just ridiculous. It's 0,33 eurocent per MB. Or you could go for a monthly payment and get 350MB's of data and pay 20 euros each month. So I don't think that gonna be an option :(

Thanks for your suggestions. I have an Android phone so I could set-up a 3G hotspot. However I have like a 1,5GB data limit. I'm thinking of switching between the networks depending on the things im doing on the web. For example logins on websites - on the 3G hotspot and regular surfing -- on the shared network. Does that make any sense? :P

Hey thanks for your reply. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough. It's not the Wi-Fi @ my school but in the one signalling around my apartment. And thank you for your suggestions, they really make sense. I'll update with more technical information about the security of the hotspot soon. Any futhur advice would be really appreciated.

Hey there, Been following the Hak5 shows and forums for quite some time now. Registered today since I've got a question that I'd like to ask: In febuary im moving to another appartment for my study/work. Unfortunately, the only way to connect to the internet there, is via a corporate Wi-Fi network. I don't have any details about the security of the network yet. I only know that it's using a WPA2 encryption. I know that would pretty much cancel out a lot of external attacks but what about internal ones? For example, can a user who's connected to the Wi-Fi network intercept my passwords with a password/network sniffer? I know that I could use a VPN to encrypt my web traffic. But how reliable are these services and will they slow down my connection? Also, can a user of the Wi-Fi network scan my host to check for vulnerabilities? In other words, how do I make sure that other users in the Wi-Fi network won't be able to recognize my host? I'll soon get some more information about the security of the Wi-Fi network since I'm going to speak to the owner. But any suggestions at this point would be very welcome.