If You Find Yourself Needing to Use a Cyber Cafe

This is a popular month for vacations. Vacations mean travel and sometimes that travel includes waiting time in an airport or several days in a city that is filled with cyber cafes. I'm on my fourth (filled) passport so I've used cyber cafes alot.

Here's what you should look for in a cyber cafe:

• Privacy walls: you don't need the guy behind you spying on your business. Be on the alert for someone observing you.
• Nothing in back of you that has the possibility of hiding a camera in it.
• Some type of software that cleans the system completely when you log out. "Goback" is a popular one. You can see what I mean by visiting a public library. After you use the computer, the hard drive is wiped and restored to its original condition when you log out.
• Printers should be behind the checkout desk and not in a public location where anyone can take your documents. 

You should also be aware that cafe administrators have the ability to view the contents of your screen without your knowlege. Keep that in the back of your mind.