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[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  1. If you're connecting to random free Wi-Fi, you're leaving yourself wide open to attacks.
  2. A lot of security researchers play with penetration testing scenarios like this. It's how you learn to defend against techniques that real attackers use.
[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I'm well aware of this. There's still the ethics of snooping on their activities I just don't agree with.