HOW TO KEEP YOURSELF MORE SECURE ON THE INTERNET

So in my British literature class today we were starting to talk about how to keep your stuff and information you think is private on your phone actually private. We unfortunately didn’t have a whole lotta time to talk about it due to a fire/earthquake drill. My teacher, Dr. Preston use the little time he had to tell us that online predators could buy this device for a little over 100$ on amazon to hack into people’s phone. The device acts as a VPN server and could rename its self  making it look like the school WiFi or if in a public area that has free WiFi like Starbucks or McDonald’s. Once your phone is connected to the WiFi the predator could go through your phone without you even knowing finding out whatever personal information they want. Dr. Preston told us to download this app called “signal” and it’s so I could text message anyone on a private server and I know no one could see the message other than me and who ever I’m sending it to. He also recommended that we consistently need to change our password and if we could remember it, it’s not strong enough. They should be long and weird.