If you have no choice and have to connect to a local free network, maybe you’ll want to consider this solution. Remember, after the Web requests are past AlwaysVPN servers, the data is in the clear… So if you do not submit any identifiable data (do not login on any site), nobody will know who you are. Well, except AlwaysVPN. So, who is AlwaysVPN anyways? We don’t know… It could be FBI or CIA as far as we know.
This does not render Internet café desktop worstation more secure, as there could be snooping apparatus in the desktop itself.
The best use of this solution (VPN) is with your own, uncompromise mobile device (berry, phone or laptop), as it will prevent snoops that are targeting specific weak open networks.