• Godort@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      It’s good practice to assume that this is true of every network you don’t control.

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      3 months ago

      If it’s an open WiFi (no WPA password) packets are not encrypted anyway, so anyone on this AP can easily see everything that comes through it. A decade ago, when most websites allowed plain HTTP, there was a Firefox extension which let you hijack the Facebook or Twitter session of anyone connected to an open WiFi with a couple of clicks.

      Nowadays everything is hopefully encrypted at the application level, so while attackers can see where the data goes, they can’t actually read it.