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So in a public location you're safer using your phone as a mobile hotspot for doing anything secure. I imagine that's pretty safe? :-)

Thanks for answering. I don't connect to every random wifi, only one's I know, such as the Cloud network - assuming they're not being spoofed. I've heard of man in the middle attacks but never realised anything could tamper with SSL. I thought you were safe seeing the green padlock in the browser and the correct domain name. Thought those certificates were tamperproof - they were either correct or they weren't. That's a little concerning. I'll have a read of the link you posted, cheers.

I read an article from a security expert stating people should not use public wifi, especially for email or banking. https://hbr.org/2017/05/why-you-really-need-to-stop-using-public-wi-fi Surely everyone's banking site uses https nowadays, and for email as well (if they're using one of the main services like gmail). Is there really a problem? And yes, I have eset on my phone and my laptop, so I can split my question into: a) Am I safe with eset running? b) Is https not going to encrypt all your passwords etc over the public wifi anyway?