Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
by reaperducer on Thursday January 30, 2020 @03:26PM
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Do you have any unprotected shared folders?
It's surprising how many people have unprotected shared folders. And for some reason they very often are full of music.
Spend a few days on a hotel's wifi and you can slurp up thousands of other people's MP3's.
Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
by gruez on Thursday January 30, 2020 @01:19PM
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>Can someone brute force your login via RDP?
probably a non-issue since it isn't enabled by default.
> Can you account for all the listening ports running on your device?
that's what firewall (which are typically default deny for incoming) is for.
Re:Advice to avoid public Wi-Fi is mostly out of date
by Kocrachon on Thursday January 30, 2020 @12:21PM
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Yeah this article is only covering a specific attack vector, to claim that public Wifi is nearly risk free because of HTTPS is a very dangerous statement to make. The risk of public wifi was far from just having your traffic spied on.
When sharing a network, there are other attack vectors into people's unhardened laptops except browser MITM. Do you have any unprotected shared folders? Can someone brute force your login via RDP? Can you account for all the listening ports running on your device?
A NAT provides strong protection by simply firewalling you from the outside world. It's so common that the focus (rightfully) zoomed in on MITM as that is the only thing "left", but in a shared network, the adversary may reside on the inside nulling that protection. Most users have not taken precautions against this.
Oh, and shoulder surfing.