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• MrKoyun@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I mean, we have https now. Also VPNs.

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  • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You can always use pihole to mess with your local dns and resolve to a fake website that looks like your social media of choice and collect their password

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    • Anivia@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Only if the user ignores the “unsafe connection” warning in the browser, since you won’t have an SSL certificate for the domain

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      • diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Hmm good point… you would need the ca to sign off on it self signed doesn’t work… it’s just a file though right? Couldn’t you rip it from the real server?

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• lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  lol, warned 2 guys I worked with not to use the starbucks free wifi or any free wifi. One of them had their bank info compromised, the other had their google compromised.

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  • guy@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    VPN ffs

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    • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      At the time, when I warned against it, I was told that I was too paranoid. Guess I wasn’t as paranoid as they thought

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