Re:82% of People Say They Connect to Any Free WiFi That’s Av...
by kickopotomus on Thursday August 01, 2019 @12:18PM
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Would you mind naming a "mainstream" application that does not use TLS by default?
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Re:82% of People Say They Connect to Any Free WiFi That’s Av...
by ygjb on Thursday August 01, 2019 @01:14PM
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Yes I would mind, but only because I stopped maintaining a list when I stopped working for a browser vendor (Mozilla) and an organization that has an intercepting proxy as a part of it's core product(OpenDNS).
It's not a hard experiment to run, and "mainstream" has different meanings in different locations. Get a femto cell or other remote access point set up an open wireless network in a high traffic area, especially in a place where there is a transit hub, and hang out for several hours.
You could also grab the Alexa top 1 million or Cisco Umbrella top 1 million, and scan them for http endpoints, and work backward from there for sites that don't bounce you to a TLS endpoint.