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0 pointset-al9y ago0 comments

The process of connecting to public wifi is risk. Most public wifi networks have a landing page that you have to click through before proceeding/granting you access. That page could have a malicious script.

Last year after a trip in Germany, my older iPhone had a random password saved in Safari settings. On top of that, every time I tried to delete the password, it would reappear when I went back (iCloud sync was off, etc.). I don't remember browsing anything out of the ordinary, but did connect to a bunch of public wifi spots. Here's to hoping it was just a really persistent ad-tracking method.

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erikpukinskis9y ago

Do you browse the web expecting sites not to have malicious scripts?

et-alOP9y ago

For my use case, I hope so.

I generally don't browse on my phone, so if I'm opening up Safari on a public network, it's to a known site or bookmark to quickly reference something (e.g. transit map, exchange rate). It's totally possible an ad on the NYT or Bloomberg has some malicious Javascript, but currently I'm naively assuming otherwise.

Also, I think many people on their phones will connect to a public hotspot just to check Facebook / Instagram / Snapchat these days and not much else.

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