Too bad all of those attacks have nothing to do with 802.11 and, given the necessity and equipment, can be carried out with almost any connection medium. Public

Too bad all of those attacks have nothing to do with 802.11 and, given the necessity and equipment, can be carried out with almost any connection medium. Public WiFi is just more popular and easier target. Just don't think your colleague (who hates you) or nearest BOFH at the job, technically can't stealthly plug out your cable while you're out, hook up his router performing a MitM attack, and have his fun and profit. Yeah, that's childish, much less probable, and incomparably more risky than just sitting with laptop at cafe, but the point is that every one of said attacks can still be carried out. Just because the whole world's relying on the obscurity as a primary security measure.