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--- communication:security [2017/10/27 00:37]
frater_secessus [using websites]
+++ communication:security [2017/10/27 00:39]
frater_secessus [your connection to the net]
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 If the website is secured it doesn't matter if the wifi is open or the mobile data has been compromised (stingrayed) by law enforcement or others.
-If the website is not secured then password **protected wifi or mobile data may protect you from casual onlookers at that first hop**.((ie, at that McDonalds or between your phone and the tower.  Rogue wifi admins or rogue LEOs would still be able to see that traffic))  The rest of the journey is not affected by what happens in the first hop and you shouldn't be transmitting sensitive data to unsecured websites anyhow.
+If the website is not secured then password **protected wifi or mobile data may protect you from casual onlookers at that first hop**((ie, at that McDonalds or between your phone and the tower.  Rogue wifi admins or rogue LEOs would still be able to see that traffic)) but that is all. The rest of the journey is not affected by what happens in the first hop and you shouldn't be transmitting sensitive data to unsecured websites anyhow.
 It is a fallacy to think open wifi connections present any threat to connections to secured websites. \\

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