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<blockquote data-quote="V6Pony" data-source="post: 1537152" data-attributes="member: 177295"><p>Please understand I'm just a novice and trying to learn about these things. I understood the real threat when using a open network "starbuck's mac&d's". Was that the data transmitted was unencrypted and could be read by using a sniffer. Unless you were using a https site or a VPN connection. A firewall will do nothing to protect you in this case. Or am I wrong?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="V6Pony, post: 1537152, member: 177295"] Please understand I'm just a novice and trying to learn about these things. I understood the real threat when using a open network "starbuck's mac&d's". Was that the data transmitted was unencrypted and could be read by using a sniffer. Unless you were using a https site or a VPN connection. A firewall will do nothing to protect you in this case. Or am I wrong? [/QUOTE]
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