Timeline for My school wants me to download an SSL certificate to connect to WiFi. Can I just avoid doing anything private while on the WiFi?
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| Aug 30 at 20:53 | comment | added | Serge Ballesta | @chiggsy: if you own the network you can do what you want on it. If you want to use someone's else network, you have to observe the network owner's rules... or not use it. | |
| Aug 30 at 19:32 | comment | added | chiggsy | I have a better idea: Don't decrypt my goddamn data, unless the admins are also accountable to ME. | |
| Aug 30 at 13:44 | comment | added | MikeB | @bebidek The chance of anything sensitive being stored in those logs is infinitesimally small. A 'standard' log isn't going to log anything more 'intimate' than the URL being requested. | |
| Aug 29 at 17:03 | comment | added | Serge Ballesta | @bebidek: My last sentence was about not using that network for sensitive data... The rule is that the usage shall be in par with the trustness.... | |
| Aug 29 at 16:36 | comment | added | bebidek | Keep in mind that even if admin is honest, these logs are going to be stored somewhere. If that storage is not secure enough (and secondary schools usually don't employ security experts), this might make stealing your sensitive data easier for a third party. | |
| Aug 29 at 12:50 | history | answered | Serge Ballesta | CC BY-SA 4.0 |