• @ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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    522 months ago

    That said…A wifi access point that requests that info is almost certainly not private for every other trackable thing you do with that wifi, however.

    • @[email protected]
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      252 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.

    • JustEnoughDucks
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      52 months ago

      Everything you do on a public WiFi should be through a VPN anyway. Just in case you accidentally forget you are on it and log in somewhere.