Just a thought, to encourage all you coffeshop surfers out there to think twice about what you're doing when connected to the Free WiFi links that you know so little about. The truth might be that you're not as secure as you think, and you may not even be connecting to the access point that you think.
With the proliferation of WiFi hotspots, there has also been an increasing incidence of techie ne'er-do-wells hijacking public WiFi sites, filtering all the traffic through their computers, passing the traffic through to the internet and stealing any snagging the "pertinent bits" (credit card numbers, bank account info, etc.) for themselves.
These so-called Evil Twins are relatively easy to set up, and sky's the limit as to what they're able to extract from the traffic that you put through them.
PC World lays out the case for basically not trusting any WiFi access points that you don't personally control. Most people would never notice the difference when attaching to an Evil Twin . . . so best to just keep the sensitive financial dealings to a non-public network that you trust!
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