Cell Phone Vacation Questions Answered

With sooo many of having travel plans this summer, here are answers to questions many of us have as far as cell phone safety when traveling...do you have to switch your phone to airplane mode, like the flight attendants tell you to? While there doesn't seem to be any evidence that cellphone use without switching over has ever caused a crash, the FAA has banned use without switching over....how bout the safety of using public wifi in airports? According to Andrew Mangan of Stacker, most websites encrypt data in such a way that hackers can't get to it, so you should be good... is it safe to use public chargers in the airport, or on the plane? A tip from Mangan on this is to use your own charging cord.....more detailed answers to those questions, plus answers to other tech travel concerns, here: https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/what-happens-if-you-don-t-use-airplane-mode-on-your-flight-here-s-the-answer-to-that-and-more-common-travel-tech-questions/ss-BB1nlgzV?ocid=hpmsn&cvid=aff67ef0467447839c43a52462152f0d&ei=49#image=2