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>People in your coffee shop on the same WiFi could read it. WEP has been deprecated for over 2 decades.
by charcircuit 1y ago
>People in your coffee shop on the same WiFi could read it.
WEP has been deprecated for over 2 decades.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoyou may be surprised at the number of unsecured WiFi networks there are. I see them in 2025 in captive portals, public libraries, and when traveling abroad.
- kstrauser 1y agoThat has no effect on the owner of a malicious access point. HTTP over WPA2 is plaintext again the moment the AP decrypts it.
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- zamadatix 1y agoNot all guest Wi-Fi uses a PSK. In general, assuming all networks will already be encrypted along each hop to the server is a losing assumption for users.