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Almahdee Gaddong
by Almahdee Gaddong , Senior Graphic Designer , BrandLand

Agree with all the answers here for security reason don't use public wifi, especially for the online transaction like banking and shopping online.

And for your safety use trusted VPN service. VPN will secure your data from the network. 

 

 

 

Mohammed  Akbar
by Mohammed Akbar , IT Consultant , Saudi Electricity

For security reason because it might be noticed during doing any activity that can help the hacker to hack you and steal your information and use it against you later  

Mark Lester Gardose
by Mark Lester Gardose , Data Center Operator , Dell & EMC Saudi Arabia

Because your personal inform is prone for hacking. ( specially your password) for all accounts.

Asad Mehmood
by Asad Mehmood , System Engineer , Electroman LLC

Using public Wi-Fi is may cause of stealing your information, more vulnerable to threat of being theft of personal information  specially while you do transactions.

Montaser Fares Abdelhamid  ahmed
by Montaser Fares Abdelhamid ahmed , سكرتير المدير العام , مكتب محاماة

With the use of public Wi-Fi, anyone can access your mobile via hacker software

 

Therefore it is recommended not to enter such networks unless known source

Faisal AL-GHAMDI
by Faisal AL-GHAMDI , Senior Business Intelligence , Tahakom

I think there is no wrong if using private VPN also don’t try to use online transaction like banking and shopping online

joseph jumba
by joseph jumba , Achieves Clerk , lifeline gym

Some ISP companies use the login information like emails and phone numbers  of wi-fi for marketing of some products 

 

Muhammad Sulaiman Malik
by Muhammad Sulaiman Malik , Helpdesk , Al Ruya Bilingual School

There are a few big problems with using a public Wi-Fi network. The open nature of the network allows for snooping, the network could be full of compromised machines, or  — most worryingly — the hotspot itself could be malicious

 

Mujahid Latif
by Mujahid Latif , Mobile Applications Developer , Freelance

Using public Wi-Fi make your phone become more vulnerable to threat of being theft of personal information like Credit card password or transaction passwords etc   

Mohammed Borham
by Mohammed Borham , Senior Procurement Engineer , Saudi Bin Laden Group

it's really easy to be hacked or at least stoled

Amir ahmed Ibrahim
by Amir ahmed Ibrahim , Engineering Manager , talabat

Advanced access to the source gateway could cause really security issues, for example when you chatting with any application that not encrypt the messages and it do warn you that messages are not encrypted, each message sent to router to be delivered through the gateway, here some sort of hacking could interrupt the messages. Also, sites visiting are some sort of private matter, you don't need someone to blame you for opening a site or have this information related. 

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