- Joined
- Jul 30, 2002
- Location
- Midland, Ontario
Google is not at fault here. Idiots running open networks are. Only a complete moron checks their email (which might contain passwords, bank statements with account numbers, etc.) and visits their bank's web site to login with their password on an unencrypted network. If they're stupid enough to do that, they have no right to complain if their connection gets piggybacked.
You don't travel much do you?
I spend probably 15-20 days a month in Hotels, which means unsecured wireless networks, by the plenty, for the most part using HTTPS sites when possible, but there are valid reasons for leaving a WiFi network unsecured, and Valid reasons for being on these networks.
The trust/hope involved is that there is no one trying to capture the wifi data being transmitted.