Fine strawman you're building there. My comment was about Python.org and I think that it wouldn't be unusual for a student to start doing some work in a coffee

Fine strawman you're building there. My comment was about Python.org and I think that it wouldn't be unusual for a student to start doing some work in a coffee shop and get MITMd. However, it'd be quite easy for someone to have setup QBitTorrent to auto-start on their laptop and then to forget about it when they're doing something else at an airport, coffee shop or other place where you would expect to use someone's wifi. Note that it doesn't even have to be wifi setup by the business - it could be a bad actor setting up an access point that just looks like it belongs there.