is it wrong to question the motives, means and reasoning of someone having 3000+ posts on here?

@HootyTheNightOwl idk..just seems like an awful lot of time spent at the library's public acces, eh

@sp1dwoOfe221 Maybe I don't live in a library???

@HootyTheNightOwl maybe so tho that wouldn't exclude u from being kicked out of one, either

@sp1dwoOfe221 Hahaha, I have no need to use public WiFi and risk all my information being stolen.

@HootyTheNightOwl ya but who cares about anyone on here, rlly now..

@sp1dwoOfe221 Hackers don't care who's data they get.

@HootyTheNightOwl 🙄

@sp1dwoOfe221 Awe, that the best you have???

@HootyTheNightOwl yes 🙄🙄

@sp1dwoOfe221 **Yawn** How boring...

@HootyTheNightOwl How is someone going to steal your data? Your communications with SW are encrypted, the same goes for your bank, and most email services.

@ninalanyon Do I look like a hacker to you??? I only know that it happens - not how they do it. If I knew that, I'd be making a good chunk if change as an ethical hacker.

You'd think that the White House nukes were secured in such a way that they'd be impossible for anybody to hack into - until that 18 year old man actually did it.

@HootyTheNightOwl I've been playing and working with computers and networks for nearly sixty years and I don't think I have ever hard of anyone being attacked through a public Wi-FI connection. I've heard of plenty of people who worry about it though, and of course I'm willing to be proven wrong.

A lot of government sites are very poorly secured it seems but most individuals who lose anything through the internet are usually attacked by some kid of social engineering rather than some technical attack.

@ninalanyon Really??? You've never heard of it??? It's all over the media...

Here's one example:-

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/public-wi-fi-warning-issued-34483497

@HootyTheNightOwl I'm not convinced. that article like most in the press is heavier on scaremongering than it is on details. In particular it does not say anything about how it was done.

It says things like:

In my experience traffic from mobile devices is now routinely encrypted. Certainly my email is encrypted and connections to my bank.

The article also says:

That implies that they got into her email first and then found her password. Surely it must be the other way about. My suspicion is that she had an easily crackable password and that the public Wi-Fi had nothing to do with it. The article merely juxtaposes the Wi-Fi and the crime it doesn't actually make a connection between them.

@ninalanyon You're never going to get a signed confession of how they did it, if that's the "evidence" you're looking for.

@HootyTheNightOwl Some kind of evidence would be more convincing than no evidence at all though.