Everyone knows using wifi and open access points can be insecure. But what are the top steps to take, applications to use, or services providers to use to keep people secure online, especially on the first hop from their computer to the internet?

More importantly, how do we explain that to everyone: not just the geeks and developers who may show up at events like GoodHack, but to our kids, grandparents, and just plain people who don't live for technology, but want it to just plain work without having to understand it.

This is most obviously a documentation problem, but a good hack would also be services that expose SSH tunnels or other secure ways to get to people's existing common email, calendar, and social networking sites, etc. Any solution that requires people to use MyPersonalServiceProvider is only an OK hack, not a truly good hack.

While many good hacks will definitely come out of this effort, the most widely used hacks will be the ones that we can explain to our grandmothers, bosses, and to the public at large.

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