Airport Experiment Shows That People Recklessly Connect To Any Free Wi-Fi Spot (softpedia.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Avast carried out a curious experiment at the Barcelona Mobile World Congress. They've set up 3 public Wi-Fi spots at the local airport and waited to see how many users would connect. In just 4 hours, more than 2,000 users used the free hotspots, despite the fact that they knew nothing about the WiFi network, if it was safe, or who was running it. Researchers randomly logged some traffic stats just to prove a point about how easy is to hack users on a public WiFi network. They also recommended using a mobile VPN app when navigating the Web via public WiFi.

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Re:I have hitch hiked before

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Here's the actual announcement from Avast:
https://press.avast.com/en-us/...

That has all you might need. No need to hitch off this softpedia site. They're not adding any value over reading the press release and they don't even include a link (or I didn't see it in their layout) to the original press report. It's the internet, linking is kind of important. Maybe they want to pretend it's exclusive content or real journalism? I dunno... Screw it, avoid entering the unknown and go to a verified source - like the message of the article.