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dickthegrouch

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6. AT&T and Comcast already know everything about me
Tue Jul 30, 2013, 01:20 PM
Jul 2013

However, I never connected to my employer's wifi network from my devices, since that would give them the right to look at everything I do using their network,, including accessing my bank or healthcare accounts.

In short, I use https:// in as many situations as possible and never connect to a wifi I don't know.

Even if you do encrypt to a wifi portal that's encrypted you are only encrypting between those two points. Someone with control of the wifi router can still see all the data leaving on the other side of the router, unless the final destination is encrypted.

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