Still new to all this and learning after reading tons of great stuff on here.
I always just assumed by having cams and setting strong passwords that you are safe. I mean it is safer than the defaults but enough people on this site have convinced me of its importance to set up a VPN and get the ability of the cams to talk to the outside off my system.
I never connect to public wifi and would rather stay on cellular data even if slower.
My question is how to deal with that momentary gap or lapse when you connect to a public wifi and before you VPN makes connection - regardless of your device, whether it be a PC, android, or apple seems to always be running something in the background - whether it be a social media app, weather app, your email, App Store, etc. I think the first thing the App store does when I connect to wifi is to look for apps to update.
I mean even if you turn that off and have email, etc. set to manual sync, your device has to still be transmitting something and how to you prevent and ensure that from the time you connect to a wifi until your VPN establishes connection that the wifi isn't putting something on your device or pulling something off running in the background that you have no idea was running?
This alone would probably cause me to still not connect to a public wifi even with the VPN and would use the VPN over my cellular data or is that just being even more paranoid than one needs to be?
Thoughts?