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Re:After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit S... by blincoln on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:44AM (#22009745)
On most networks, anyone else on the same subnet as your IP can hijack your connection using ARP spoofing and send you whatever they want if you're connecting over Http instead of HTTPS. That's usually a lot easier to pull off than compromising the server and replacing the content there.
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Re:After 36 years as a paid product, the Micro-Cap Circuit S... by ta999999171 on Friday January 10, 2020 @04:56AM (#22009815)
Something to think about for anyone still putting Google and Amazon devices on the same WiFi network as their phone and other PCs.
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