Discussion on: How do you practice safe public wifi access?

[Keith Bremner]

I have a DigitalOcean droplet running WireGuard. Costs $5 per month.

I run the WireGuard client on all my devices set to auto connect to it on all SSIDs except my home network.

Pros:

• It auto connects seamlessly away from home.
• All traffic on all ports can be sent via my server.
• I get a known (and consistent) external IP address when I’m on VPN. Means that I can protect services I use and still access them when out and about.
• I have control of what the VPN server is logging.
• It’s much faster than OpenVPN and other solutions.

Cons:

• It’s on me to set up the VPN server and keep it secure.
• Because my IP external IP is consistent it could easily be traced back to me if big brother government wanted to find who it was.

[Trent Haynes]

I would love to find out more about this style of setup.

I personally use both Torguard and Windscribe VPN services.

[Keith Bremner]

This explains the steps pretty well:
ckn.io/blog/2017/11/14/wireguard-v...