I think it was more that attendees at a conference just log onto the nearest available wifi, regardless of whether it is secure or not, not what sites they were

I think it was more that attendees at a conference just log onto the nearest available wifi, regardless of whether it is secure or not, not what sites they were going to They were also logging onto government mail servers for example, which, whilst it may be boring to you or me, there are probably people out there who can make use of log in details for various sites that may have been accessed over open wifi. EDIT: The source article makes it a little clearer than the arstechnica one http://www.thelocal.se/20150114/young-pirate-hacks-into-top-security-conference http://www.thelocal.se/20150114/young-pirate-hacks-into-top-...