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  1. Mike Gerwitz (mikegerwitz)'s status on Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 11:50:55 UTC Mike Gerwitz Mike Gerwitz
    Since I'm on hotel Wifi, a reminder to travelers: consider using a VPN or Tor. I use the latter, both for my web browsing and for SSH to my home server, for privacy reasons.

    It's not just about data collection on guests by the hotel or network operator---some networks, like my hotel, aren't even encrypted, so any non-encrypted traffic can be sniffed. There's a lot of metadata that can be sniffed even from encrypted connections, including domains that you're accessing, and traffic analysis can get a pretty good idea of what it is you're looking at depending on the sites you're visiting. So any guest or anyone else within range (or any users of long-range antennas, even) could sniff data from guest connections.

    Be safe!

    #LibrePlanet2019 #privacy
    Saturday, 23-Mar-2019 11:50:55 UTC from web permalink
    • Victorhck, Dr. Edward Morbius :o: and Skiring and 3 others like this.

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