• ASDraptor
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    2 months ago

    My email is whatever shit protonpass comes up with when I generate a random alias. Phone number is 3334445566 Name is: lol no Gender is undisclosed DoB is January 1st of the first year I can select. Otherwise, 1900 And income is 1.

    There, free WiFi.

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        2 months ago

        It’s good practice to assume that this is true of every network you don’t control.

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        If it’s an open WiFi (no WPA password) packets are not encrypted anyway, so anyone on this AP can easily see everything that comes through it. A decade ago, when most websites allowed plain HTTP, there was a Firefox extension which let you hijack the Facebook or Twitter session of anyone connected to an open WiFi with a couple of clicks.

        Nowadays everything is hopefully encrypted at the application level, so while attackers can see where the data goes, they can’t actually read it.

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        1 month ago

        Everything you do on a public WiFi should be through a VPN anyway. Just in case you accidentally forget you are on it and log in somewhere.

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      I usually use:
      Email - nope@nah.com
      Name - Nah Nope
      Gender - prefer not to say
      DoB - same as you
      Phone - just random digits, or if I’m feeling spicy the phone number of a guy I used to be buddies with who fucked me over
      Income - never been asked for this yet, probably go with something outlandish…like 1