Hiya!
If there is a yellow shield next to the wireless icon, this indicates that the connection is functioning but is not secured. In this case because she's using the hotel guest wifi, I would tell her to switch to a more secure network or to disregard the error.
Hope this helps!
Yes there is because there are people who willingly put false, and potentially dagnerous information on the internet to make money. In recent events, "Fake news" is very popular on social media sites such as Facebook. These fake news links post shockingly fake headlines such as the death of a celebrity. People peruising their feeds will click on the fake link and either be taken to a different website, or a virus can even be gotten from the link. The people who posted the news can make money off of how many people click on their article.
<span>408 Request Time out error messages are often customized by every website. These messages are especially for large websites that take long time to process itself.
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<span /><span>Causes for these messages:
The 408 Request Timeout error is an HTTP status code that says that your request is not send to the server in the given time. In other words, your website connection is “timed out”
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