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yah, or just use your smartphone (or a *book) to access the wifi of the internet cafe and then establish an encrypted tunnel to your destination.
– akira
Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 14:31
It's entirely practical (with a laptop), and it doesn't have to be linux. IMHO, this is the only valid solution.
– rjmunro
Commented Aug 15, 2011 at 20:33
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The reason I said linux was that many cybercafe's are teeming with windows viruses. They are less likely to attack a Linux system.(I guess a Mac would do as well) Personal experience is that once I connected a firewalled system with McAfee (basically corporate security) to a cybercafe wifi network. It was screwed in < 30 sec (infinite popups + unbootable)
– Akash
Commented Aug 17, 2011 at 9:26
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@Akash: Plus, there are cd-bootable (thus physically read-only) Linux distros; I have yet to see a fully functional Windows install which boots from CD and is actually usable.
– Piskvor left the building
Commented Sep 6, 2011 at 12:27

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