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[–] [email protected] 62 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Please use a VPN anyway, as if hotel WiFi is secure lmao

[–] [email protected] 48 points 4 months ago (6 children)

HTTPS solved much of the security issues of untrusted networks. As long as you're not doing banking or whatever, you should be fine without a VPN.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Why would banking be an issue? I get that its a target, but I really would expect a bank to take care of their TLS.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

Also i would expect banks to use some sort of 2FA where you have to manually confirm any transaction on your mobile device, or enter a code generated from there into your computer.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

No security measure is perfect. When doing security-sensitive things, it's better to wait when you're home on an uncompromised network.

But yes, the chances of something happening is very small, even when using an unknown network.

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