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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by swiley on Thursday January 30, 2020 @08:56AM (#22191278)
While you’re probably not going to be instantly attacked, I still wouldn’t do online banking on a public network.
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by billyhoffman on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:19AM (#22191879)
Honest question... why not?

Modern banks use HTTPS throughout. The banks I use all have HSTS and use preloading so no hijacking to a non-HTTPS site. I use a password manager so if somehow I do get hijacked and get sent to a phishing site, and even if that phishing site is using a Lets Encrypt cert to prevent the “Not Secure” banner in a modern browser, my password manager isn’t going to recognize the domain so it would not let me attempt to log in even if I wanted to.

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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by ceejayoz on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:04AM (#22192357)
This comments thread literally starts with someone who discovered their bank's app wasn't validating the certificate, though.
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by lukewink on Thursday January 30, 2020 @11:23AM (#22192542)
In that case it wouldn't be safe to use the app on a private network either.
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by JohnFen on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:35PM (#22193326)
True, but doing so on a private network would still be a whole lot safer than on an open AP.
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by numpad0 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @09:02AM (#22191319)
Every commercial network is a public network in a sense
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by dwild on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:25PM (#22193806)
In a boolean sense sure, but the world is more complex that true or false, and some are more public than others.
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Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date by iso1631 on Thursday January 30, 2020 @10:55AM (#22192252)
I suspect the average public network is more secure than the average bank network
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