Ask HN: Do you use your phone as hotel/free WiFi condom for laptops?

[ebfe1]

While we try our best to lock down our laptop, close open ports, run littlesnitch, ufw but it is always an unease to connect them directly to an public wifi, worrying about some 0day that allow someone in local lan to hack it.

What I sometimes do is to use my phone connecting to the free wifi and simultaneously hotspotting it to my laptop - It feels better to have something in between blocking random nmap scans.

Anyone else doing this? Is there other tricks you do?

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

Nah, never done that. It's hard enough to find a place to charge one or the other.

[tantalor]

I think the word you're looking for is prophylactic.

[ebfe1]

TIL! Thank you!

[toomuchtodo]

I use a Glinet travel router.

[ebfe1]

I will look into that, thanks for the recommendation!