There’s also the risk of more advanced attacks that exploit the WiFi chipsets themselves, which are a real problem when they muck with the driver (which usually

There’s also the risk of more advanced attacks that exploit the WiFi chipsets themselves, which are a real problem when they muck with the driver (which usually have DMA access to the os) and trick the os into overwriting kernel memory. That said, this is more a problem of connecting to untrusted WiFi than unencrypted WiFi.