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Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by EvilSec: 3:50pm On Jul 01, 2020
I'm going to rebut almost all articles that claims you shouldn't connect to Public WiFi. The short answer is, Yes, it is okay to use public WiFi, it is not extremely dangerous. Instead, companies who want to sell you something hype the danger.

A decade ago, public WiFi was extremely dangerous, as demonstrated with "sidejacking", etc. These days, major websites have their act together, and HTTPS is secure -- as long as you don't bypass HTTPS warnings. It's not perfectly "safe", of course, it's just that it's not particularly dangerous vs. all your other online activities. Moreover, it's often not an option: these days, you have to connect to the Internet, and through your mobile phone is not always an option for travelers. Now, "open" WiFi is stupid, like that in airport lounges that still require a password to be entered in a landing page. Such things should always be WPA2 encrypted. It's only marginal protection, of course, but will stop a lot of passive eavesdropping.

Also protip: If you don't entrust your employees to pay attention to HTTPS errors, then you can force them through a VPN. So while public WiFi is mostly safe, you can make it still safer.

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Re: Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by clockwisereport: 8:45pm On Jul 01, 2020
Even if it is safe, UNN wifi will still be slow to the extent that u can only read whatsapp messages with it
Re: Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by hammersxo: 4:11pm On Jul 14, 2020
clockwisereport:
Even if it is safe, UNN wifi will still be slow https://aolsigninhelp.com to the extent that u can only read whatsapp messages with it

yup. They are slow as snails. In fact, public wifis are only used to send messages. It takes years to open one page. And talking about privacy and security, being the free and public thing, I think there's something in there.
Re: Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by myles16(m): 5:59pm On Jul 14, 2020
clockwisereport:
Even if it is safe, UNN wifi will still be slow to the extent that u can only read whatsapp messages with it



I don't know about UNN but Usman Danfodio University, Sokoto wifi is damn fast with no password. It reads 1mb per second and at times 5mb/s
Re: Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by Hotspotbro(m): 9:25am On Mar 24, 2021
when there's Ettercap Bettercap aircrack-ng airgeddon and Wireshark Evil Wifi AP attack/MITM
Re: Is Public Wifi Still Safe In 2020? by bularuz(m): 10:03am On Mar 24, 2021
100% unsafe

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