How to connect to public wireless, securely?

When you connected to unsecured public wireless, you may transmit sensitive information such as your e-mail user name and password or other important information to non protected websites addressed (non-https sites). Someone (cracker) who also connected with the same access point to this unsecured public wireless, may gain access to this information. A VPN (virtual private network) connection can protect your internet connection from this issue. I use Little TunnelBear VPN  service to secure my internet connection, when connect to unsecured public wireless. Since this is a free VPN service, the data transfer amount limited up to 500MB per month. For me it is enough. I found this free VPN service is the most easy one to use and no pop-up or advertising. If you satisfy with this free VPN service and need more data capacity, then you can subscribe to a pay service.

For more information visit, http://www.tunnelbear.com/help/

A freemium password storage for your internet sites

Password:
Visit https://lastpass.com/, download, register and install it and lastpass will ease your internet browsing experience by remembering your site's user names and passwords.

Requirement: An e-mail address.


Do:
On a public computer, it is recommended that you generate a one-time password and login to lastpass using one time password. See the picture above.

Don't:
Don't login using your master password on a public computer, to prevent people from stealing your lastpass's master password and getting all your internet's user names and passwords

Competitor:
Any better free password software than this? My personal two cents, I cannot find one, as of March 1, 2012.

But, I do hope Dashlane will catch-up!

Cost: Freemium or $1/month