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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • On the other hand that is also one of those things that annoys me about romance culture, the whole notion of your girlfriend/boyfriend/wife/husband being “stolen” by someone else as if your partner was just a passive object instead of being the actual person in the cheating who made promises to you (which might or might not include sexual exclusivity depending on mutually agreed upon preferences between everyone in the relationship) and should keep those promises or break up with you no matter what any third person tempts them with.









  • Unless websites use the very latest version of SSL at the very least the hostname you connect to (the Server Name Indication field) is visible. As are your DNS queries unless you use DoT or DoH or DNSCrypt or some similar encrypted DNS protocol.

    Until very recently most browsers also defaulted to using http for any address you typed into the address bar without a protocol so your first request was HTTP and could redirect you to an entirely different website. DNS spoofing would work just fine with this since the website you actually connect to over https after the redirect is already attacker controlled and has a certificate for hat attacker controlled domain (e.g. with replacement unicode characters that look virtually identical to the original website domain name).

    The router can also see your Mac address so they might have a unique identifier to track you across open Wifi networks (if we are talking commercial country-wide installations run by one company).

    Many gaming protocols also do not use TLS encryption since they rely on UDP and while there are encryption variants for that gaming is often unreasonably optimized for speed over everything else.

    So in summary, in general, yes, the network you are connected to can be dangerous and can learn some information about your network usage.