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Originally Posted by gottabekd
Just to clarify about this...
Unless the website is over HTTPS (indicated in the address bar, or by the lock icon), it is fairly trivial for anyone within range of the router--not only the router owner--to see any information you post online (including passwords). So your facebook, possibly email, others are all broadcast in plaintext, and easy to sniff.
If the website IS https (like your bank), you are pretty safe. As indicated, the only thing you have to worry about in this case is if your machine is compromised. The data over the line is safe though. If anyone intercepts it, it is computationally unfeasible to decrypt it.
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which is why you don't use the same password for your banking and stuff as all your other stuff like CP
