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What Is a VPN? Using your Android tablet or phone to access the free Wi-Fi at the local coffee shop can be considerably more dangerous than you might imagine. First, you can't tell if the network has been configured incorrectly, allowing others on the network to see your data. Second, it's entirely possible that nefarious parties have simply set up an innocent-looking wireless network to trick naive coffee drinkers. They can be very difficult to tell from the real thing. Those are just some of the reasons you need a VPN. In both of the scenarios above, someone could monitor your network traffic. Everything you send, from emails to passwords, would be open to them. That's a lot of private information you'd probably rather keep private. One example of a classic man-in-the-middle attack is to use a bogus network to intercept victims' web traffic and replace legitimate sites with fake ones. When a victim goes to enter their information (everything from passwor...