Secured Surfing

Can on open WiFi be secure?

A Freifunk router supplies an open WiFi without encryption.

This video shows you why this is not a problem (in German).

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Alexander Lehmann, Lena Schall und Florian Maerlender

Link to the recommended plugin: HTTPS Everywhere

The video was created in 2015. Nowadays, most websites automatically forward to HTTPS and therefore encrypt the connection between your mobile phone/laptop and the sever that hosts the website. It is absolutely irrelevant if your computer uses WiFi with a totally complex password or Freifunk.