Internet cafes can be dangerous places. Here’s how to keep your information safe.
Photo by Mark Shandro
Whether sending email, uploading photos, booking flights and hotels, paying the bills back home, and checking the status of a bank account, travelers use the internet for a huge variety of tasks.
The ubiquity of internet cafes around the world has made this convenience possible.
Illustration by Jacob Bielanski
Take a look at this website. The text, the picture above, the pictures below, the logo - all of them represent a separate request by your computer to a server hosted somewhere else on the planet.
With each request, a packet was generated that had to find a path in myriad of trails. It is very likely that each one of these requests took a different path. And it will be a whole new set of paths and destinations when you click away from here.
Tim Leffel is the editor of PerceptiveTravel.com, an online, non-corporate magazine devoted to showcasing original and thought-provoking travel stories.
Perceptive Travel is one of my favorite online media outlets, consistently serving up eclectic and engaging travel stories.
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I know a bugbear of many of you is being charged for internet access at luxury hotels.? You’re already paying a top rate and perhaps understandably don’t expect to have to be charged for your internet usage.? Marriott has announced that five of its brands (Courtyard, Residence Inn, Fairfield Inn, TownePlace Suites and SpringHill Suites) now offer guests free WiFi hotels in the U.S. and Canada.? That’s great to hear, but what about extending this to other locations and other brands?? What about Ritz-Carlton, JW Marriott and Bulgari?
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