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fordsmithlast Saturday at 1:02 AM1 replyview on HN

If you are on a public network without using a VPN you open yourself up to MITM to inject something malicious


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cogman10last Saturday at 1:07 AM

Sure, but that's ultimately a pretty unlikely attack vector. An attacker still needs to exploit some unknown vulnerability of your web browser in order to get something malicious going.

I basically expect that sort of attack to only be pulled off by a state actor or by a black hat convention for the lolz.

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