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One thing to be careful of using other peoples connections is that they can sniff your traffic. And things like POP3 and IMAP mail send usernames/passwords in plain text.

When I use an "open" wireless - hotel, someone elses neighbors, etc - I just ssh to my home machine and tunnel everything over that encrypted connection. Cheap man's way of having a VPN.
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