Much of the risks has already been covered in the post by Mayank Sharma. I want to add on this by saying that wifi clients trust relationship with the access point is highly influenced or motivated by signal strength or the proximity of the client and the access point.

Such is the case that an open access point that is put near to your wifi powered laptop (in its default setting) would always tries to attempt to connect to that close by station.

You should always be vigilant about this behavior as this happens seamless in many cases. The best way to prevent this behavior is to configure your client to always connected to preferred access point (in the settings options).

Many of the risks have already been covered in the post by Mayank Sharma. I just want to add on this by saying that wifi clients trust relationship with the access point is highly influenced by signal strength, i.e. the proximity between client and access point.

Such is the case when your laptop with wifi enabled and set up to automatically connect (its default setting), when put near an open access point will always attempt to connect to that station.

You should always be vigilant about this behavior as in many cases it happens without any user interaction. The best way to prevent this is to configure your client to always connect only to preferred access point (you can do that in the settings options)

Much of the risks has already been covered in the post by Mayank Sharma. I want to add on this by saying that wifi clients trust relationship with the access point is highly influenced or motivated by signal strength or the proximity of the client and the access point.

Such is the case that an open access point that is put near to your wifi powered laptop (in its default setting) would always tries to attempt to connect to that close by station.

You should always be vigilant about this behavior as this happens senseless in many cases. The best way to prevent this behavior is to configure your client to always connected to preferred access point (in the settings options).

Much of the risks has already been covered in the post by Mayank Sharma. I want to add on this by saying that wifi clients trust relationship with the access point is highly influenced or motivated by signal strength or the proximity of the client and the access point.

Such is the case that an open access point that is put near to your wifi powered laptop (in its default setting) would always tries to attempt to connect to that close by station.

You should always be vigilant about this behavior as this happens seamless in many cases. The best way to prevent this behavior is to configure your client to always connected to preferred access point (in the settings options).