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Free WiFi has become so ubiquitous that you’d be hard-pressed to find a Starbucks that does not offer it. With the right tools, anyone in the coffee shop can gather data from unprotected devices and, given enough time and luck, crack it open. The dangers of using public WiFi are very real, but it has a significant downside – it essentially allows people on the network to do things that you won’t be comfortable with. There are numerous ways to do that: Snooping/Sniffing Man-in-the-middle attacks Honeypots (faux hotspots) Unencrypted connections Malware