None of the actual matters and this attack is rarely used these days. 99.9% of shit is encrypted “over the line”. Unless you have some tls zero day you ain’t getting shit besides leaked DNS.

me when https and all my traffic is encrypted regardless of if I use a VPN or not

Nice try, NordVPN.

Oh no, watch out everyone it’s a Wire(less)Shark™

Everything is encrypted nowadays, with HTTP or similar. They only get DNS requests (if you use DNS over HTTPS or over TLS, not even that). Unless you have a zero day in your encryption scheme or network stack, you’re fine.

I use Tailscale (or the fully-self-hosted Headscale) to ensure all my data is routed through my home whether my phone/laptop is on cell data, public wifi, or otherwise.

One can also simply use it to ensure communication between specific devices is always secure and available but I also find it quite useful as a way to secure all my data when away from home.

It’s free for 5 users/100 devices per account with virtually all of the features available to the free plan.

There is also a paid option which should really only be interesting to businesses/etc which have many users to connect. Alternatively self-host g Headspace has no restrictions at all.

Nice PSA. I’ll probably use this, it’s very easy to understand

The only reason why open wi-fi is insecure is because of captive Wi-Fi portals and I’m not saying that the Wi-Fi itself or the internet access is insecure it’s just that captive Wi-Fi portals are inherently insecure because they block secure http and also with the website you’re going on to don’t have https so you can easily figure out the password that they want you to enter in or be able to steal somebody else’s session so you don’t have to pay or you can just get into a Xfinity router or something

Hacker

Thats why you should use a VPN when you are out and about. 🙏